Restrained elegant and enduring his minimal approach to design allows for pure expression of form and proportion.
Max bill wall clock 1956.
Bill had early ambitions to be a silversmith but quickly changed his focus to architecture after seeing the work of le corbusier.
Max bill was a hugely influential founder of the concrete art movement not only through his variegated career as a sculptor painter and industrial and graphic designer but also as a prolific writer scholar and teacher.
His collaboration with junghans began during his time as rector at the ulm college of design hfg.
Designed in 1956 max bill s wall clock perfectly illustrates one of design s hallmark adages.
Bill had early ambitions to be a silversmith but quickly changed his focus to architecture after seeing the work of le corbusier.
Re issue of the original junghans 1956 wall clock.
Max bill was a hugely influential founder of the concrete art movement not only through his variegated career as a sculptor painter and industrial and graphic designer but also as a prolific writer scholar and teacher.
Powered by quartz j738 in house mvmt by junghans.
Junghans max bill wall 12 clock 367 6047 00.
Case dimension is 30cm 12.
Junghans a german watch company founded in 1871 approached bill to design a set of watches and clocks for the brand.
Fascinated by time bill accepted the offer and released his first piece a wall clock in 1956.
1861 medium chrome plated and painted metal dimensions d.
2 3 8 6 cm diam.
The max bill wall clock can be easily mounted to any wall and runs on a single aa battery.
Max bill wall clock model 32 0389 1957 max bill kitchen clock 1956 1957 max bill expansion in four directions 1961 62 max bill half sphere around two axes 1966 max bill combillation 1970 max bill homage to.
Junghans max bill edition set 2018 363 2816 00.
Manufacturer gebrüder junghans ag schramberg germany est.
Max bill was an architect painter sculptor and product designer.
The max bill wall clock can be easily mounted to any wall and runs on a single aa battery.
12 3 4 32 4 cm credit philip johnson fund object number.
Max bill wall clock model 32 0389 1957 not on view.
From 1956 he designed kitchen table and wall clocks here which made design history.
Restrained elegant and enduring his minimal approach to design allows for pure expression of form and proportion.