Solid oak, cherry, walnut
Dessau, Germany, around 1931
Dining suite with table and six chairs
Sober board construction
Tapered square legs, trapeze-shaped seats and backrests
Backrests and tabletop with geometric inlays of cherry and walnut
Brass knobs of the backrests secondary
Dimensions of chairs: 92 x 45 x 46 cm
Dimension of table: 76 x 120 x 80 cm
Good, restored state

This rare dinning suite was manufactured in 1932 in the Bauhaus of Dessau. The six chairs and table from solid oak show a simple board construction, typical for the so-called Dessauer Landhaus. The trapeze-shaped rests and seats, as well as the rectangular tabletop sit above tapered square legs. The table top and the backrests show also geometric inlays from cherry and walnut.

The dining suite is in good restored condition. The brass knobs on the backrests are of recent date. The chairs measures 92 x 45 x 46 cm. The dimensions of the table are 76 x 120 x 80 cm.

Bauhaus

The Bauhaus was founded 1919 in Weimar by Walter Gropius under the slogan, “Bau der Zukunft [construction of the future]”, as an art school that was meant to teach all arts unified with architecture into an ideal entity, or in Gropius’ words, "to create a new guild of craftsmen, without the class distinctions that raise an arrogant barrier between craftsman and artist." In 1925, the school moved to Dessau and began cooperating with the industry under the motto, “Art and Technology – a new unity”. The first tubular steel furniture went into production, “Meisterhäuser [master houses]” designed by Gropius were built, and international attention was attained. After Gropius, Hannes Meyer and later Mies Van der Rohe were directors of the Bauhaus, which had to move to Berlin in 1932, only to be finally closed under Nazi pressure in 1933. Many of the former protagonists fled to the USA where they kept on spreading the ideas of the Bauhaus with great success. (bed)

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