# Willy Guhl artist context and auction value notes

Canonical page: https://appraisily.com/artist/willy-guhl/
Profile generated: 2026-08-24T13:40:29.729Z
Quality: medium confidence, adequate sources

## Artist identity

- Birth date: 1915-07-06
- Death date: 2004-10-04
- Nationality: Swiss
- Common media: Furniture design, Product design, Interior architecture

## Portrait

![Willy Guhl](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/8f/Guhl_en_1951%2C_en_compagnie_de_Robert_Haussmann_%28%C3%A0_gauche%29_et_du_mouleur_Noser_chez_Eternit_SA_%C3%A0_Niederurnen..jpg)
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Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guhl_en_1951,_en_compagnie_de_Robert_Haussmann_(%C3%A0_gauche)_et_du_mouleur_Noser_chez_Eternit_SA_%C3%A0_Niederurnen..jpg

## About Willy Guhl

Willy Guhl (1915–2004) was a Swiss designer, architect, and artist associated with twentieth-century Swiss design. German-language biographical material identifies his practice more specifically with furniture design, product design, and interior architecture. French-language biographical material presents him as a pioneer of Swiss industrial design and associates him with Swiss neo-functionalism, although the collected source pack lacks the museum or scholarly evidence needed to treat that movement label as settled. Collectors are most likely to encounter Guhl’s name attached to furniture and other designed objects rather than conventional fine-art categories. His identity is anchored across Wikidata, Getty ULAN, VIAF, and Library of Congress authority records, helping distinguish his work from objects by similarly named makers. The available Appraisily input reports 505 associated auction records, but the collected sources did not expose record-level details for particular models, manufacturers, dates, or prices.

## Common works and media

Public biographical sources identify Guhl with furniture design, product design, and interior architecture. The most defensible broad auction and appraisal categories are therefore furniture and other designed objects. This source pack does not support a reliable list of named models, manufacturers, materials, editions, or recurring motifs, so those details should be established from object-specific evidence rather than inferred from the designer’s name alone.

## Market and appraisal context

An appraisal should begin by confirming that an object is correctly catalogued under Willy Guhl and determining whether it belongs to furniture, product design, or another design category. Relevant public auction records can then provide context when they describe genuinely comparable objects and disclose sale dates and realized prices. The collected Appraisily input indicates 505 associated records, but its public page was rate-limited during collection, preventing review of individual lots or price patterns. This source pack also does not establish particular model names, manufacturers, materials, editions, dimensions, or condition distinctions. Those object-level details require documentation from the item and verification against accessible catalogues and comparable sale records before a valuation conclusion is reached.

## Appraisily data basis

Appraisily artist pages combine researched identity and authority records with auction records, auction-house context, sale dates, realized prices, and comparable lots when those records are publicly available and sufficiently detailed.

## Sources

- Wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q121897
- Getty Vocabulary Program: https://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500097734
- VIAF: https://viaf.org/viaf/96402361/
- Library of Congress: https://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n85017363
- Wikipedia: https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Guhl
- Wikipedia: https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willy_Guhl
- Appraisily: https://appraisily.com/artist/willy-guhl/
- Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Guhl_en_1951,_en_compagnie_de_Robert_Haussmann_(%C3%A0_gauche)_et_du_mouleur_Noser_chez_Eternit_SA_%C3%A0_Niederurnen..jpg