Hans Gugelot

Johan Gugelot was born on 1 April 1920 in Makassar, Dutch East Indies to Dutch parents.[3]

He completed his early education in Laren and Hilversum, North Holland.

In 1934, the Gugelot family moved to Davos, Switzerland for Hans's father's job as a physician.

Between 1940 and 1942 Gugelot studied architecture in Lausanne, and graduated as an architect from Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule (ETH), Zurich in 1946.

Until 1948 he worked as an architect for a number of architects.[4] In 1947, he married.

In 1948, Gugelot was hired by Max Bill, for whom he created his first furniture designs.[4][5]

In 1950 he founded his own office and began work on the design of the "M125" shelving and storage system for Bofinger, a product for which he later became known.

Gugelot is closely identified with Hochschüle für Gestaltung (HfG) in Ulm, Germany.[2] Another influential work of his from this period is the "Ulm Stool", which he designed in collaboration with Max Bill.[3]

In 1954, Gugelot met Erwin Braun, then-head of German consumer product company, Braun. Throughout the remainder of the decade, he created a number of designs for the company such as the Braun SK 4 radiogram (known as "Snow White's Coffin"),[6] which he designed with Dieter Rams and Herbert Lindinger.[7][4][3]

He also designed a slide projector (the Carousel-S, a professional model sold only in Germany) for Kodak in 1962.[2] The design is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), in New York.[8]

• Notable works
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  Ulm Stool (1954)
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  Braun SM 2 shaver (1963)
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  SK 4/10 "Snow White's Coffin" Radio-Phonograph for Braun (1956)
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  Braun turntable
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  M125 storage system (1956)
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  M125 system (details)