Hans Coray

Hans Coray ( born June 9, 1906 in Wald ZH, † 22 November 1991 in Zurich ) was a Swiss artist and furniture designer. He studied Romance languages ​​at the University of Zurich and received his doctorate in 1929. Already in 1930 he designed furniture for the first time. With Anton Stankowski, Richard P. Lohse, Heiri Steiner, Hans Neuburg, Hans Fischli, Verena Loewensberg, Max Bill and others, he formed a cultural district in connection with the Zurich School of concrete. His most important design is the Landi chair he for the Swiss National Exhibition of 1939 in a competition in 1938 and presented so reüssierte. Coray, who was mainly active as a painter and sculptor by the 1950s, laid great emphasis on the functionality and simplicity of its models and is considered a pioneer of industrial design.

His Landistuhl is since 2004 part of a series of stamps by Swiss Post on the subject of Swiss " design classic ".