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Boutique Schatulle, Basel and Zurich. Collection A.2 Alfred Senn

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The ai-s archive room has been comprehensively transformed and refurbished. It now presents itself in a new guise, with a viewable storage area and large workspaces.
VSI.ASAI has elected the interior architect and designer Eleonore Peduzzi Riva as its Honorary Personality 2025. The records of her diverse body of work are part of ai-s. (Photo: Marcel Baechler)
“Schweizer Designklassiker im Dialog” (“Swiss Design Classics in Dialogue”), Zurich Design Weeks September 2025. Click here for the recording of the discussion with Rosmarie and Klaus Vogt.
The interior architect Verena Huber has produced a film project titled “Objektschaufenster” (“Object Showcase”), which, like her archive housed in a flat-file plan cabinet, is divided by decade.
A view into the studio of the architect and designer Klaus Vogt. In the foreground, his chair for the Gymnasium Locarno (Locarno secondary school); in the background, his roller-shutter furniture. (Photo: Ariana Pradal)
Perspective sketch by interior architect Paul Sumi for the optician’s shop Matthey in Biel. (Nachlass PS — estate collection of Paul Sumi)
Folded sheet-metal object by Rosemarie Vogt, painted in colored stripes (Vorlass RV — collection donated during her lifetime by Rosmarie Vogt; Photo: Steff Naegeli)
Lightweight construction was the declared goal of the Lega Leggera furniture collection, which Eleonore Peduzzi Riva developed with Cassina starting in 1962. (Archiv EPR)
Interview with Guido Berger and Annette Stahl of Berger & Stahl Architektur und Design in Basel (Source: Oral History Berger & Stahl)
In addition to her entrepreneurial and design work, the Basel-based interior architect Doris Dietschy has also written repeatedly over the years. (Vorlass DD — collection donated during her lifetime by Doris Dietschy)
The studio Gasserderungs has reissued an armchair from the 1970s from the Vorlass (collection donated during his lifetime) of the designer and interior architect Richard Hersberger. The designer, now 95 years old, was closely involved in the further development of the design.
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Design by Gian Franco Legler for the tea room at the Hotel Hauser in St. Moritz (Source: Nachlass GFL — estate collection of Gian Franco Legler)
The archival collection of the Bern-based interior architect Ursula Staub-Feller is the first digital Vorlass (collection donated during the creator’s lifetime) that ai-s has taken on. (Photo: Isabelle Schaad)
Armchair “Siesta” (1962) by Richard Hersberger, interior architect and designer, Muttenz/BL (Vorlass RH)
Residential house of Alfred and Ines Senn in La Chapelle-Thècle/FR (Photo: Ariel Huber)
Interview with the interior architect and long-time lecturer Hanruedi Vontobel in Herrliberg (Source: Oral History)
Hans Bissegger (1947–2023) was an architect, interior architect, and designer. After training as a structural draftsman, he worked for Max Bill. (Photo: Steff Naegeli)
Verena Huber: “This is an exercise book belonging to my great-aunt, which I was allowed to play with as a child.” (Vorlass VH)