Lumber-core beech wood
GDR, 1947
Design: Selman Selmanagi? (with the collaboration of Liv Falkenberg and Herbert Hirche)
Completion: VEB Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau
Upholstered seat with blue faux leather cover
Dimensions: 78 cm, 55 x 51 cm
Very good condition
The design is still strongly oriented towards the functionalism of the Bauhaus era

This seminar chair was created shortly after the end of the Second World War in 1947. The Bosnian Selman Selmanagi?, who had studied at the Bauhaus, created it with the collaboration of Liv Falkenberg and Herbert Hirche. The rack with the skewed exhibited legs is constructed of square timbers of beech. The plywood rest is widened on top to two shoulders that are adjusted to the body form. The upholstered seat is covered with a blue faux leather. The design is still strongly oriented towards the functionalism of the Bauhaus era.



The dimensions of the chair are 78 cm, 55 x 51 cm. It is in very good original condition with few traces of age and use as partly rubbed armrests.



Deutsche Werkstätten Hellerau (est. 1898)

The Werkstätten were established in 1898 by Karl Schmidt-Hellerau. The plywood board was invented through a design by Hellerau in 1898/99. A technical college and training workshops were established in 1907. There were 450 employees in 1910. The company endured despite the heavily to overcome world economic crisis in 1929 and the socialist command economy of the GDR. Hellerau was the parent plant of the VEB Möbelkombinat Hellerau that several furniture companies belonged to in the GDR. The company was converted into a GmbH in 1991 and reprivatized in 1992. They re-started with 80 employees. The Deutsche Werkstätten employ 200 people today. (afa)

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