Klaus Vogt

Klaus Vogt (1938–) is a Swiss architect and designer, born in Winterthur and trained under Willy Guhl at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Zurich. His first professional engagements took place at the Grosman Architecten office in Rotterdam, and later through a collaboration with architect Dolf Schnebli from 1962 to 1966. After another four-year period in academia as an assistant to Professor Bernhard Hoesli at ETH Zurich, Vogt finally decided to set up his own practice in 1970. The products he designed often play with color and with curved, rounded lines, infused with an optimistic and cheerful vision of design. He created various products for the Swiss brand Thut, but he is probably best remembered for a piece produced by De Sede: the iconic DS-600 sofa (1972), co-designed with Ueli Berger, Eleonore Peduzzi-Riva, and Heinz Ulrich, a true style icon of the 1970s. In the decades that followed, he remained active at ETH Zurich, both as a professor and, as an architect, working on several buildings within the university complex.