MB-TI-1A
MB-TI-1A
Wooden-slat chair called “TI-1a” is an authentic Bauhaus item designed by Marcel Breuer in 1922-1924 and crafted at the Bauhaus in Weimar. Breuer was a modernist architect, sculptor and furniture designer, best known for the design of the most iconic chairs of 20th century. He was one of the first students, pioneers and later the teacher of the Bauhaus movement as well as of the International Style.
Wooden- slat chair was made during Breuer’s firstyears at the Bauhaus school in Weimar. Its head of the school department, the architect Walter Gro-pius, immediately recognised Breuer’s talent and promoted him within a year to the head of the carpentry shop. At the Bauhaus, Breuer produced the furniture for Gropius’ Sommerfeld House in Berlin as well as his acclaimed series of “African”and “Slatted” chairs. Breuer did remarkable design with this wooden-slat chair where he used a cantilevered frame as the construction manner for the first time. The chair also represents an important series of collaborations between Breuer and the Bauhaus weaving workshops, led by German textile artist Gunta Stölzl.
While the first version of 1922 used still two different kinds of wood slats, square and rectangular once, this second version got more radical and used for everything the same dimension of slats, expressing a much stronger dynamic in the shape. The chair has rigid wooden structure which is softened by the woven fabric that allows for a gently sloping seat and back.
Price
on request
Dimensions:
96.5 x 56 x 62 cm
38 x 22 x 24.5 in
Material:
Oak wood, fabric
Condition:
Original condition, no restoration
Provenance:
Bauhaus School, Weimar; private collection; auction, 2022.
Literature:
Cat. Bauhaus Archive Berlin, The Collection, Berlin 1987, p. 90.
