Zunfthaus zur Meisen

This guide to Zunfthaus zur Meisen in Zurich starts with an odd fact about its wine-merchant guild: painters were full guild brothers here too, which is why this trade hall carries gilt stucco and painted ceilings finished in seventeen fifty-seven by master builder David Morf, with work by Johann Schuler and Johann Balthasar Bullinger. It follows the delicate porcelain collection that filled these rooms for six decades starting in nineteen fifty-eight, made nearby in Kilchberg to rival Meissen and Sevres. Look up at the ceiling Schuler and Bullinger painted as you sit beneath it now.