MB-TI-1A

MB-TI-1A

The wooden-slat chair, known as "TI-1a," is an authentic Bauhaus item designed by Marcel Breuer between 1922 and 1924 and crafted at the Bauhaus in Weimar. Breuer was a modernist architect, sculptor, and furniture designer, best known for designing some of the most iconic chairs of the 20th century. He was one of the first students, a pioneer, and later a teacher of both the Bauhaus movement and the International Style. The wooden-slat chair was made during Breuer's first years at the Bauhaus school in Weimar. The head of the school, architect Walter Gropius, immediately recognised Breuer's talent and promoted him within a year to head the carpentry shop. At the Bauhaus, Breuer produced furniture for Gropius's Sommerfeld House in Berlin, as well as his acclaimed series of "African" and "slatted" chairs. Breuer achieved a distinctive design with this wooden-slat chair: a rigid wooden frame, with the seat and back achieving their elasticity through tensioned canvas webbing rather than solid boards. The chair also represents an important series of collaborations between Breuer and the Bauhaus weaving workshops, led by the German textile artist Gunta Stölzl. While the first version from 1922 still used two different kinds of wood slats, square and rectangular ones, this second version was more radical, using the exact same dimensions for all slats and expressing a much stronger dynamic in its shape. The chair features a rigid wooden structure that is softened by the woven fabric, which allows for a gently sloping seat and back.

Dimensions:

96.5 x 56 x 62 cm 38 x 22 x 24.5 in

Materials:

Oak wood, fabric

Literature:

Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin: The Collection (Berlin: Bauhaus-Archiv, 1987), p. 90.

Terms:

Certificate of Authenticity included
Worldwide shipping available
14-day return policy

Enquiries:

on request