About

Wigglesworth-Weider is a Swiss company founded by interior designer Bettina Wigglesworth-Weider. The company's work includes interior design and the manufacturing and marketing of Peter Wigglesworth's furniture and lighting design.



Bettina Wigglesworth-Weider

Having studied at the Ballet Academy Zürich, her career ended after a back injury. Bettina then finished commercial studies and worked for Wohnbedarf AG in Talstrasse, Zürich. Marcel Breuer and Robert Winkler had designed the shop interior, and Max Bill the company's logo. Wohnbedarf produced furniture designs of Alva Aalto, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe and Florence Knoll. As the assistant to the then-owner, she handled, for example, the company's affairs with Isamu Noguchi and organised exhibitions of Xart Multiples. After founding Formatera AG, she collaborated with Aldo Businaro, Maddelana DePadova, Livio, and Piero Castiglioni. Formatera produced Castiglioni's halogen lighting to produce installations, such as a Fellini exhibition at the Kunsthaus Zürich. She later introduced the designs of Peter Wigglesworth, Donald Judd and AG Fronzoni. With Wigglesworth-Weider, she continues her work with the designs of Peter Wigglesworth.



Peter Wigglesworth

Born in Freeland, Oxfordshire (UK) in 1945, Peter grew up in London, where, at 18 years old, he attended St. Martin's School of Art. He graduated with a 1st class honours diploma in fine art (sculpture) and the Queen's Award for Art. He designed and made a wooden chair when he was 16 and a plywood stool at art school. In 1979, he met Bettina Weider, an interior architect who founded Formatera AG in Zürich. Through their collaboration, he developed his furniture and lighting designs. In 2005, he realised Haus Steinegg. He continues to work as an artist.