Zurich, Switzerland 🇨🇭 · Modern since 1931
Wohnbedarf
Founded in Zurich in 1931 by Sigfried Giedion, Werner Max Moser and Rudolf Graber, Wohnbedarf brought the new architecture of the Swiss avant-garde into the home. A young Max Bill drew its lowercase lettering, and from 1950 it sold his furniture: pure geometry made into tables and chairs you live with every day.
The Max Bill collection
Four designs from 1949 to 1951, each built on one geometric idea. Every piece is made to special order.
The designer
Max Bill (1908–1994)
Born in Winterthur, Max Bill was an architect, painter, sculptor, typographer and product designer, and a leading voice of concrete art. His tie to Wohnbedarf began in 1932, when he designed its lettering and its first posters and leaflets.
Bill believed beauty came from function, clear logic and an economy of materials. The Square-Round table, designed for Wohnbedarf in 1949, puts that idea to work: closed it is a square, with its leaves raised it becomes a circle. The Three Circles tables stand on a base drawn from rings, and the Cross Frame chair rests on one crossed support. Wohnbedarf began selling his furniture in 1950, and the collection is made again today with the agreement of the Bill family.
The beauty of function, and beauty as function.
A shop that shaped Swiss modernism
In its first years Wohnbedarf sold tubular steel furniture by Swiss architects alongside work by Marcel Breuer, Alvar Aalto and Le Corbusier. Breuer designed its Zurich rooms in 1933 and remodelled them again for the shop’s 25th anniversary. More than ninety years on, Wohnbedarf still furnishes homes and offices from Zurich and Basel.
Why buy Wohnbedarf from LoftModern
Made to special order
Each Max Bill piece is built for you after you order, so it arrives new and in the finish you chose.
The original designs
These are the designs Max Bill drew between 1949 and 1951, produced under the name that first sold them.
Help before you buy
Ask us about sizes, finishes and room planning. We answer every question before your order is placed.
Trade and project orders
Designers and architects can open a LoftModern trade account for project pricing on Wohnbedarf pieces.
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Max Bill furniture by Wohnbedarf, including the Cross Frame chair and the Three Circles tables, made to special order.