Landi Chair by Hans Coray for MEWA

The Swiss designer Hans Coray (1906-1991) received his doctorate in Romance studies from the University of Zurich in 1929 before turning to the design of everyday metal objects from 1930. His best-known work is the Landi Chair (1938) for MEWA (P. & W. Blattmann Metallwaren-Fabrik), developed as the official seating for the Swiss National Exhibition of 1939 and one of the first chairs made entirely of aluminium. The construction of bent, pressed aluminium with rubber feet made the chair light, stackable and weatherproof. From 1941 Coray also worked as a jewellery and metal designer and in 1950 founded his own studio for product design, working among others for the manufacturer Wohnbedarf. The Landi Chair has been produced by Vitra since 2014.