Hans Coray

Hans Coray was a Swiss artist and furniture designer. He is best known for designing the Landi chair for the Swiss National Exhibition of 1939, a lightweight aluminium chair that became a classic of Swiss industrial design and is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York. In addition to the Landi chair, Coray designed furniture for industrial production, including pieces for the line für den Wohnbedarf, and worked as a painter, sculptor and art dealer.