The MOVALUX floor lamp is part of the DOKU+ collection and was created at the request of the Legler family. Based on the idea of Swiss designer Jörg Boner and businessman Thomas Schätti to incorporate Swiss design classics and designs into the new collection, this product marked the beginning of the collaboration.

 

Gian Franco Legler (born 1922 in Ponte San Pietro, Italy; died 2015 in Zurich) was a Swiss interior architect and designer. He became interested in industrial design at an early age and, after studying architecture and mechanical engineering at the ETH Zurich, moved to the United States in 1951 to study "Plastics and Fiber Technology" at MIT in Boston.

After a period working as a freelance designer in Chicago, he returned to Zurich in 1963 to found his own design, interior design and architecture firm.

 

One of his most important designs is the Basket Chair (1951), which he created for a restaurant in his home village of Locate. Just two years later, the chair received the Good Design Award from the Museum of Modern Art New York, and since 2012 it has been reissued in a variety of materials and colors.

 

In 1947, during a semester break in his architecture studies in Zurich, Gian Franco Legler designed the first Movolux model, one of the world's first fully balanced floor lamps. It was further developed into the Movalux and produced by the Italian lighting manufacturer Arredoluce until 1986. The lamp found its way into the SCHÄTTI DOKU+ collection in 2024 as a faithful re-edition.