Public History Research

This book was the first to tell the multifaceted food history of the entire Alpine region, and it won prizes at home and abroad. It received a gold medal at the Frankfurt Book Fair, and our historical image research won the Special Prize of the Académie Suisse des Gastronomes.

‘Schweizer Schokolade, Alpen, Milch und Pioniere’ is the new standard work on the subject, a finely produced illustrated book that joins food, business and cultural history. Public History Research searched far beyond Switzerland for its historical imagery.

The book tells the centuries-old story of Swiss cheese through exceptional photographs and prominently placed historical images. It won the Goldene Feder at the Frankfurt Book Fair.

H. Schwarzenbach, a Zurich institution, has traded in coffee, tea, spices and delicacies since 1864. The family firm marked its anniversary with a book that tells its history as a cookbook. We researched the historical images of old Zurich for it.

This elaborately designed publication tells the food history and culinary wealth of Basel-City and Basel-Country. It won the Grand Prix du Livre Gastronomique.

This comprehensive book covers the diversity of honey across the entire Alpine region. Our search for its historical visual sources took us through museums and archives from Slovenia to North America.

We took on the Swiss art direction for David Fincher's thriller and delivered the demanding Zurich sets with our own specialist team.

This American mystery adventure surprises with carefully researched scenes of medieval life. We designed the richly detailed set decoration and led an international team of specialists.

The documentary about the architect Mies van der Rohe tells the story of his rise through the eyes of the women closest to him, with previously unseen films, images and documents. We designed a studio set for the film on the principles of modernist architecture and led the art department.

The award-winning feature film tells the story of Germany’s victory at the 1954 World Cup. We handled the art direction for the Swiss part of the film and researched the look and mood of the post-war years.

We led the art department on an employer branding film series for the SBB. We researched life in Switzerland from the 1970s to today and designed the film sets. Every era was given a look of its own, true to its period.

We recreated the Switzerland of 1964 for the film of this children’s classic, after extensive research. The production design won us the City of Zurich Film Award, and the film became one of the most successful in Swiss cinema.

We researched the history of Swiss skiing from the 1930s to today for this commercial, and compiled the most spectacular scenes from national and international film and television archives.

The film series grew out of the book and tells the story of Alpine cooking. We researched the historical visual sources of Alpine food history across the entire Alpine region, and the Académie Suisse des Gastronomes honoured that research with a special prize.

Landqart AG is majority-owned by the Swiss National Bank and specialises in banknote substrates, the paper on which money is printed. Public History Research conceived and produced its bilingual anniversary book.

Bank Linth, now LLB (Schweiz) and part of the Liechtensteinische Landesbank Group, marked its 175th anniversary. Public History Research compiled the milestones of the bank’s history and created the concept and content for a presentation by the executive management.

The permanent exhibition at the new headquarters of the Winterthur municipal police tells a hundred years of police history. Public History Research helped shape its concept and content and set out the historical context behind the objects.

Public History Research developed the content and imagery for a book marking the 50th anniversary of Les Ambassadeurs, the Swiss luxury watch and jewellery retailer. It appeared in six languages.

Cilag AG is today Johnson & Johnson Schaffhausen. For its anniversary magazine, Public History Research compiled the milestones of the company’s history. The work drew on image and archival research and on oral history interviews.

Public History Research developed the concept for the library of this four-star superior hotel in the Engadin together with its owner, and advised on the selection of around a thousand books.

The Swiss National Museum’s exhibition on food culture featured large-format photographs of table culture from the 15th to the 21st century. We handled their art direction, chose original objects from the museum’s collection and staged them as historical still lifes.