In 1955, Willy Guhl designed the DRELA ceiling lamp for the home of his longtime colleague Robert Bircher. The light of the DRELA lamp is stylishly decorative. The easily rotatable and slidable metal tubes enclosing the cable provide flexibility and allow the white frosted glass globes to be placed in the desired position. DRELA comes with a universal E27 base for LED lamps.

 

The DRELA ceiling lamp, part of the DOKU+ collection, is the result of a collaboration between Swiss designer Jörg Boner and entrepreneur Thomas Schätti to add Swiss design classics and designs to the new collection as a premiere edition.

 

Willy Guhl (born 1915 in Stein am Rhein; died 2004 in Hemishofen) was a Swiss furniture, product and interior designer. He exerted a formative influence as a professor at the School of Applied Arts in Zurich from 1941 to 1980.

With the reorganization of the department in 1971, Guhl created one of the first academic institutions for product design in Switzerland and thus played a key role in shaping the Swiss design landscape as we know it today.

 

His collaboration with Eternit (Schweiz) AG, the furniture manufacturer Dietiker + Co, and the agricultural machinery manufacturer Aebi should also be mentioned. In 1955, he designed a ceiling lamp for the interior of his longtime teaching colleague Robert Bircher.

 

This Willy Guhl design has never been mass-produced. In 2024, the lamp found its way into the SCHÄTTI DOKU+ collection.