Planter "diabolo" by Anton Bee and Willy Guhl for Eternit Switzerland, 1950.

In 1951, eternity ag sought to collaborate with external designers and asked willy guhl and his students to work on new containers for. Plants. Eternit, developed for the manufacture of roofs and pipes, is a stable product with a fibrous texture resistant to traction, breakage and climatic variations that contains 10% asbestos. Known since ancient times, asbestos was then reused in an innovative way by industry. For guhl, "no building material used so finely gives as much stability as eternit." Traces of wear, blue lacquer not original.

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