The striking feature of this chair is the design of the legs, linked by the cross-frame. The model is still in production today (as a new edition since 1999). It won the "Good Form" award from the Swiss Werkbund (SWB), a Swiss association of artists and designers, for the first time in 1952.

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Title
Cross-frame chair
Category
Industrial design
Artist
Max Bill
Material
Wood: laminated maplewood, form-bent. Frame, wood: solid beech, varnished
Year
Design: 1951; production: from 1952
Size
78 x 48 x 52 cm
Owner

Zürcher Hochschule der Künste / Museum für Gestaltung Zürich / Designsammlung

Muzeum Sztuk Współczesnych
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