Vogt Stool

Klaus Vogt (b. 1938) trained as a boat builder and then did a degree in interior design under Willy Guhl at the Kunstgewerbeschule Zürich (today ZHdK), after which he was an assistant at the architecture school of the ETH Zürich. Rather than following rigid rules in his work, he delights in experimentation and playing with shapes, colors, and production techniques. Vogt usually starts by inventing furniture for his own use, trying to reduce his resources to a minimum. For the production of student chairs for the cantonal secondary school in Locarno, for example, he built a special machine for bending the plywood seat shells, which are then mounted on a colorpainted metal frame of welded angular elements. For this simple, stackable stool, which he developed in 1962, Vogt drew on his own designs as well as on processes that recall the furniture of Jean Prouvé. Embru only began serial production of the three-legged stool as Model 1563 in 2014.