Swiss Grand Award for Design 2023

Etienne Delessert, Eleonore Peduzzi Riva, Chantal Prod’Hom

Etienne Delessert, born in Lausanne in 1941 and based in Lakeville, Connecticut, made his name as a graphic designer and illustrator in Paris and New York with advertising campaigns and posters, and later gained wide renown for his illustrations, animated films, and paintings. He has illustrated more than 80 books, all of which have become worldwide successes.

Eleonore Peduzzi Riva, born in Basel in 1936, worked as a designer and design consultant for major brands such as Cassina, Artemide, and De Sede. The DS-600 modular sofa of 1972, created in collaboration with Ueli Berger, Heinz Ulrich, and Klaus Vogt, is an expression of her goal to enable people to design their personal habitat.

Chantal Prod’Hom, also born in Lausanne in 1957, founded the Asher Edelman Foundation in the 1990s, where she staged visionary exhibitions featuring little-known artists, and traveled the world in search of design talent for Benetton’s famous Fabrica. Between 2000 and 2022, she directed her native city’s Musée cantonal de design et d’arts appliqués contemporains (mudac). Through her tireless commitment, she shapes and fosters public perception of design.

Switzerland’s Federal Office of Culture has awarded the 2023 Swiss Grand Award for Design to Etienne Delessert, Eleonore Peduzzi Riva, and Chantal Prod’Hom. This book introduces each of them through a concise text and an interview, as well as a brief biography, illustrated with images from their archives.

The Federal Office of Culture in Bern is part of Switzerland’s Federal Department of Home Affairs. Its responsibility is to promote Swiss culture in the fields of literature, performance arts, film, visual arts, and design, and to preserve the country’s cultural heritage.

Between abstraction and tradition: Sam Francis’s fruitful encounters with Japanese culture

The Space of Effusion Sam Francis in Japan

978-3-85881-861-4 English sFr. 75.00 | € 68.00 | £ 60.00 | $ 65.00

Vibrant metropolis and placid

Switzerland: Lill Tschudi’s modernist linocuts

Lill Tschudi

The Excitement of the Modern Linocut 1930–1950

978-3-03942-057-5 English / German sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 35.00 | $ 45.00

The monotype is a print and one-of-a-kind at the same time—Marguerite Saegesser was a master of this technique

Marguerite Saegesser American Monotypes

978-3-03942-133-6 English / German sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 35.00 | $ 40.00

A unique insight into Marina Abramovic´s biography and art and what connects the two Psychoanalyst meets Marina Abramovic´ Artist meets Jeannette Fischer

978-3-85881-794-5 English

978-3-85881-546-0 German sFr. 19.00 | € 19.00 | £ 18.00 | $ 20.00

A unique visual study of spatial change in Switzerland since 2005

Urban Change Over Time

The Photographic Observation of Schlieren 2005–2020 Reveals How Switzerland Is Changing

978-3-03942-140-4 English

978-3-03942-139-8 German sFr. 79.00 | € 77.00 | £ 70.00 | $ 85.00

An extraordinary collection of Paul Klee’s drawings, watercolors, and prints

Paul Klee

The Sylvie and Jorge Helft Collection

978-3-03942-107-7 English

978-3-03942-106-0 German sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 42.00 | $ 50.00

An entirely new artistic approach to Le Corbusier’s iconic chapel of Notre-Dame-du-Haut in Ronchamp

Le Corbusier Ronchamp Siegrun Appelt 978-3-85881-695-5

An illustrated reader on the highly topical subject of tribal art in the museums of the Global North Pathways of Art How Objects Get to the Museum

978-3-03942-097-1 English

978-3-03942-096-4 German sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 32.00 | $ 40.00

The life and work of Meret Oppenheim: insights, interpretations, and indications

Meret Oppenheim Enigmas

A Journey Through Her Life and Work

978-3-03942-063-6 English

978-3-03942-046-9 German sFr. 39.00 | € 38.00 | £ 30.00 | $ 39.00

New works by painter and former art forger Wolfgang Beltracchi alongside texts by distinguished authors

Wolfgang Beltracchi

The Return of Salvator Mundi

978-3-03942-142-8 English

978-3-03942-138-1 German sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 42.00 | $ 50.00

Very intimate insights: Meret Oppenheim’s album and autobiography

Meret Oppenheim—My Album

The autobiographical Album “From Childhood until 1943” and her handwritten biography

978-3-03942-093-3 English / German sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 42.00 | $ 50.00

Emotional prodigy—and brilliant art forger: Wolfgang Beltracchi

Psychoanalyst Meets Helene and Wolfgang Beltracchi

Artist Couple Meets Jeannette Fischer

978-3-03942-071-1 English

978-3-03942-070-4 German sFr. 25.00 | € 19.00 | £ 20.00 | $ 25.00

The entertaining album of a journey with design objects by Italian architect and designer Matteo Thun

In the Summer of 2009

Photographs by Walter Pfeiffer, Design by Matteo Thun

978-3-03942-137-4 English sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 42.00 | $ 50.00

The multifaceted, always surprising early work of Swiss artist and designer HR Giger

HR Giger

The Oeuvre Before Alien 1961–1976

978-3-03942-136-7 English sFr. 49.00 | € 48.00 | £ 42.00 | $ 50.00 OCTOBER 2023 (Europe) JANUARY 2024 (US)

From Constructivism to Art Deco and back to Avant-garde and the Bauhaus: a unique survey of transformations of Soviet interior design across six decades

Soviet Design

From Constructivism to Modernism. 1920–1980

978-3-85881-846-1

A unique visual foray into the fantastic worlds of artist HR Giger

HR Giger by Camille Vivier

978-3-03942-116-9 English / German sFr. 99.00 | € 97.00 | £ 85.00 | $ 110.00