Armchair
ca. 1926 (made)
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| Place of origin |
Radical German design thinking in the 1920s focused on social improvement, and furniture designers experimented with designs that would suit the new compact workers' housing being built in several cities. The Bauhaus was not the only design school exploring these ideas but it was the most famous. Erich Dieckmann, who designed this armchair, was a student at the Bauhaus between 1921 and 1925, and the influence of his peer, Marcel Breuer, is evident in the intersection of lines and planes in this chair. In 1925 the Bauhaus moved from Weimar to Dessau but Dieckmann remained and headed the furniture workshop at the renamed Bauhochschule. Shortly afterwards, he designed this armchair as part of a modular range of furniture, intended to be manufactured using machined standard components.
Object details
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| Object type | |
| Materials and techniques | Oak with leather upholstery |
| Brief description | Armchair, designed by Erich Dieckmann, made by the Bauhochschule, Weimar, Germany, 1926, oak with cane upholstery |
| Physical description | Stained oak armchair with leather seat. |
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| Gallery label | Chair and armchair
Designed by Erich Dieckmann (German, 1896-1944)
Manufactured by the Bauhochschule, Weimar, Germany
Oak with leather or cane upholstery
About 1926
The Bauhochschule was the art school in Weimar which succeeded the Bauhuas, when it moved to Dessau in 1925.
W.16 & 17-1979(1989-2006) |
| Summary | Radical German design thinking in the 1920s focused on social improvement, and furniture designers experimented with designs that would suit the new compact workers' housing being built in several cities. The Bauhaus was not the only design school exploring these ideas but it was the most famous. Erich Dieckmann, who designed this armchair, was a student at the Bauhaus between 1921 and 1925, and the influence of his peer, Marcel Breuer, is evident in the intersection of lines and planes in this chair. In 1925 the Bauhaus moved from Weimar to Dessau but Dieckmann remained and headed the furniture workshop at the renamed Bauhochschule. Shortly afterwards, he designed this armchair as part of a modular range of furniture, intended to be manufactured using machined standard components. |
| Associated object | W.16-1979 (Ensemble) |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | W.17-1979 |
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| Record created | January 24, 2008 |
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