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In 2006 Kuhn Rikon opened a museum on the history of cooking. In 2010 they launched a range of cheese and meat fondue pots, portable stoves and forks, co-developed by Kuhn Rikon and ceramic expert Hanspeter Landert. In 2012 Philipp Kuhn, Dorothee Auwärter, Christian Kuhn and Willi Auwärter became the fourth generation of family owners ...
In 1817/18 a textile manufacture was established in Rikon, and in 1925 the best known Metallwarenfabrik AG Heinrich Kuhn, now Kuhn Rikon AG. Since 1934 Hinter-Rikon is part of the municipality Zell. [1] In 1961, Switzerland was one of the first countries in the Western hemisphere, that gave new homes on a large scale to Tibetan refugees.
Sign of the Tibet-Institute Rikon. The Tibet Institute Rikon is a Tibetan monastery located in Zell-Rikon im Tösstal in the Töss Valley in Switzerland.It was established as a non-profit foundation in 1968, because Swiss laws resulting from the 19th century secularization movement did not allow for the establishment of new monasteries until 1973.
The Swiss Design Awards [1] competition is a hundred-year old design award and one of the three means of design promotion by the Swiss government's Federal Office of Culture, along with the Most Beautiful Swiss Books and the Grand Prix Design. They are open to Swiss designers and to designers resident in Switzerland. Around 17 prizes of CHF ...
Swiss style (also Swiss school or Swiss design) is a trend in graphic design, formed in the 1950s–1960s under the influence of such phenomena as the International Typographic Style, Russian Constructivism, the tradition of the Bauhaus school, the International Style, and classical modernism.
The museum's four extensive collections (Poster, Graphics, Design and Applied Art) are of international importance. The Museum of Design is located in Zürich's Kreis 5, close to Zürich Hauptbahnhof. Parts of its collections are housed opposite the museum's main building on Limmatstrasse (the Plakatraum, or Poster Collection), and in a ...
Traditional Swiss farm and village house design depended on a number of factors including the local climate, type of agriculture, materials available, local tradition and location. Each region in Switzerland developed their own style of vernacular architecture to meet these factors.
Swiss Design Awards; Z. Zurich University of the Arts This page was last edited on 21 October 2024, at 11:44 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons ...