Lot: 38

Jörg Schellmann
'Hommage à Marcel Breuer' prototype table with prototype chair, 2018

Table: H. 73 x 165 x 76 cm. Chair: 82 x 51 x 53 cm.
Thonet, Frankenberg.
Table: bent steel tube, wooden top, industrial plastic boxes, with Thonet-Label.
Chair: bent steel tube, 3D plywood seat shell.
Marked: Schellmann Furniture Label.

To mark its 200th anniversary, the Thonet company asked Jörg Schellmann for a new interpretation. “I immediately chose the Breuer table with its perfectly balanced asymmetry. I decided to 'update' it by replacing its drawer body with three simple commercial plastic boxes. They can be inserted into the side panel in either the left or right position. This equipment clearly locates the table in today's working world. To create a working situation, I adapted an earlier chair design of mine to the tubular steel construction characteristic of Thonet and Breuer. The A-shape of its legs created an attractive contrast to the rounded, yet orthogonal aesthetics of the Breuer table and the Bauhaus era.”

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Estimate: 2,200 € - 3,000 €

176A - Design and Art from the Schellmann Collection
03. December 2024 at 4:00 PM CET

Literature:

Discreet Beauty of Simplicity, pp. 252 - 257.