Auction 177A

Design

25. March 2025

Consignments until
24. January 2025

With 475 objects, the design auction on March 25, 2025 offers a wide selection of important pieces and popular classics from the history of design.

'The house on the lake' - important design of the 90s from a German company collection

A particularly exciting delivery was acquired at short notice in December. The seminar and management center of a large German Dax company, located on one of the beautiful lakes in the Munich area, is being extensively renovated and therefore had to be vacated. Fortunately, the on-site project management knew about the significance of the furnishings and contacted Quittenbaum directly. After a complete renovation in 1993, the rooms and suites of the center were fully furnished with designer furniture and lighting and left exactly as they were until the end of last year. We took over a large part of this interior and it will be auctioned on March 25. This includes the complete furnishings of a 'Memphis Suite' and a suite with Philippe Starck's furniture objects. The prices are modest and the objects are in very good condition.

German Design - from Bauhaus to New German Design

In the Bauhaus and German Design section, we have managed to acquire some extraordinary treasures. Extremely rare objects by Marianne Brandt will be auctioned from the collection of the daughter of a Bauhaus and Burg Giebichenstein teacher. The iconic ashtray 'MT35' (est. €10,000-12,000), a deep bowl 'ME 37a' (est. €2,000-2,500) and a large flat bowl 'ME 160' (est. €900-1,200) all bear the Bauhaus stamp and have been in the same family for almost 100 years. This collection also includes a copy of the famous ceiling lamp from the Bauhaus Dessau (designed by M. Brandt - SP € 3,000 - 5,000), as well as a very rare, beautiful, reddish enamel tea caddy by the Bauhaus artist and Burg Giebichenstein teacher Lili Schultz (SP € 1,200 - 1,800) and a tea infuser by the Bauhaus artist Josef Knau (SP € 500 - 700). Also of great rarity is the tubular steel chair 'B 11' by Marcel Breuer in a very early version (designed 1927 - estimate €9,000-10,000).

The chair objects by Bodo Rasch are also very important and only a few examples were ever made. Over the past twenty years, a private collection in southern Germany has acquired three important pieces by him: the 'dynamic' 'Benner Armchair' from the hairdressing salon of the same name (designed in 1934 - SP € 2,800 - 3,500), the striking 'Insel Chair' with three holes in the backrest (designed in 1946 - SP € 2,000 - 3,000) and the somewhat lesser-known chair from the student club house in Tübingen (designed in 1956 - SP € 1,000 - 1,500). Two 'Ulm Stools' (designed in 1953) that were purchased at the beginning of the 1960s directly from the HFG Ulm (SP € 2,000 - 3,000) round off the offer. The cult Plexiglas chair by Danilo Silvestrin also offers a unique opportunity. Silvestrin originally designed this icon of 1960s space-age design in 1968 for his friend, the Düsseldorf photographer Lothar Wolleh. He furnished Wolleh's apartment, which also served as a gallery for the works of his artist friends, with a variety of futuristic, transparent furniture. Later, the seating object for two people was then produced by the Lambert company in a very small series. The example we are offering is the original exhibition piece that was presented at the Cologne furniture fair and comes from the photographer's private collection. It is in very good original condition and has not been restored (SP € 15,000 - 20,000). From the private collection of the engineer and materials developer responsible for the development of the advanced and pioneering integral foam 'Baydur', four fantastic seating objects are coming up; two 'Z-chairs' by designer Ernst Moeckl (designed 1968 - SP 900 - 1,200) and two 'Targa armchairs' by Klaus Uredat (designed 1970/71 - estimate € 2,500 - 3,000). The most famous designs made of 'Baydur' are the early, first stable Panton chairs. The highly coveted Uchiwa fan lamps are the work of the famous lighting designer Ingo Maurer; for this auction, we were able to acquire the 'Uchiwa I' floor lamp and the ceiling lamp 'Shichi'; both designed in 1973 and purchased by the consignors shortly thereafter, they will be auctioned with estimates of €7,000 and €6,000.

There is a strong demand for New German Design of the 1980s; the wonderful 'Monolith' mobile pedestal (c. 1985) by Wolfgang Laubersheimer, with a functioning Märklin toy train as a crowning feature, is offered at the reasonable estimate of €2,500.

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