Ruedi Was An Interior Designer Too!

H.R. Giger is best known for his work in Fantastic Realism and Surrealist art, and his contribution to films such as Alien and Species, but he also studied architecture and product design during his time at the School of Applied Arts, in Zurich. From 1966-68 he worked as an interior designer, before concentrating full time on art and film-making, although as evidenced by his creations below, he never lost his interest in interior design.

These examples of his interior work have been around quite a few years now, but I think are always worth another look.

The Giger Bar is located in the city of Chur at the Kalchbühl Center.
Comercialstrasse 23 - 7007 Chur
Tel: 081/253 75 06 Fax: 081/353 74 05

Giger Museum

Javier Martínez de Pisón says, in his review, “In the belly of the beast” that:
“The womb-like interior of the otherworldly environment that is the H.R. Giger Museum Bar is a cavernous, skeletal structure covered by double arches of vertebrae that crisscross the vaulted ceiling of an ancient castle.”

“The acute perceptual sensation of being in this extraordinary setting recalls the Biblical tale of Jonah and the whale, lending the feel of being literally in the belly of a fossilized, prehistoric beast. But the the “Harkonnen” chairs, with their spinal cord backs topped by pelvis bones, and the stone floor plates engraved with strange hieroglyphs all suggest that somehow you have been transported into the remains of a mutated future civilization.”