'Europa' chair, 1920s – Olympia Büromaschinenwerke AG, Erfurt

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Olympia Büromaschinenwerke AG, Erfurt
'Europa' chair, 1920s

H. 82 x 56 x 57 cm. Beech wood, beech plywood, sheet metal, steel. Marked: manufacturer's metal plaque.

Issued by the Deutscher Werkbund in Paris in 1930; shown in the exhibition catalog with other seating furniture by Marcel Breuer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Adolf Gustav Schneck and Anton Lorenz. Herbert Bayer designed the exhibition catalog.

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Hammer Price: 800 €

166A - Schools of Design
29. November 2022 at 3:00 PM CET

Literature:

Hoffmann/Grosskopf (Hrsg.), Bröhan 100, Berlin 2021, S. 251; Grassi Museum for Applied Arts (ed.), Bauhaus Sachsen, Leipzig 2019, p. 31.

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