Who can today still produce the famous Bauhaus furniture and design objects? Where to get the license? Behind each downstream of the Bauhaus model buildings is a very own adventurous history.
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Special editions of the Bauhaus 2019
Teapot by Marianne Brandt (1924)
The painter, photographer and designer Marianne Brandt was in the Bauhaus metal workshop, a student and later Deputy head. The new Edition of the teapot from sterling silver represents a model of a teapot in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The jug is implemented with its round and square elements to the geometric form of the principles of the Bauhaus.
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Special editions of the Bauhaus 2019
Sugar cream Service, of Marianne of fire, the (1928)
The company Alessi produces since the mid-1980s, some of the Bauhaus products under the license of the Bauhaus archive. This includes models of ashtrays and the of Marianne Brandt and Helmut Schulze-designed sugar-cream Set. For the anniversary year they will be as Bauhaus Edition special packaging.
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Special editions of the Bauhaus 2019
Table lamp by Wilhelm Wagenfeld (1924)
Wilhelm Wagenfeld was 24 years old when he was taken on as an apprentice in the Bauhaus workshop in Weimar. Were meant to the designs of his table lamp for the industrial production. The first pieces were made by hand and not in series. Even today, the “Wagenfeld table lamp WA 24” by the company Tecnolumen is manufactured to the Original specifications of the car field.
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Special editions of the Bauhaus 2019
Building game by Alma Siedhoff-Buscher (1924)
Alma Siedhoff-Buscher designed this building game, in which the sides of the blocks were originally different colors, during their training at the Bauhaus. The game was part of the children’s room in the model house “Am Horn” in Weimar. After that, it was produced in different versions in the workshops of the Bauhaus. Since 1977, the Swiss company Naef games AG produced the game as a replica.
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Special editions of the Bauhaus 2019
The cradle by Peter Keler (1922)
The original cradle by Peter Keler was unstable and was not realized to the Bauhaus times in the series. The Tecta has produced a steel frame for the first time in 1975. Keler thanked Tecta with his first full-color design of the cradle as a gift. To the anniversary of the Bauhaus, the company Naef has a miniature model of a cradle, a under license by Tecta.
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Special editions of the Bauhaus 2019
Cantilever chair by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
The cantilever chair by Marcel Breuer, Mies van der Rohe and Mart Stam belong to the classics of the Bauhaus furniture. To mark the anniversary of the art and design school of the company Thonet has launched a limited Edition of the famous “cantilever chair S 533 F” of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: The racks of tubular steel armchairs are made of “pearl gloss chrome” and “champagne chrome”, the cover is made from nubuck leather.
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Special editions of the Bauhaus 2019
Marcel Breuer’s “Wassily Chair”(1925/26)
Hans Knoll and founded the furniture company Knoll International in 1938, in the United States. About the contacts of his father to artists such as Walter Gropius or Marcel Breuer, this provided him with their furniture designs initially without a fee. So Knoll also got the license for the Wassily chair by Marcel Breuer, unlike the Name suggests – has nothing to do with the painter Wassily Kandinsky.
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Special editions of the Bauhaus 2019
Marcel Breuer’s foldable tubular steel chair (1927)
Marcel Breuer, Tecta has the folding “steel-tube chair D4” in the program, which was designed on the occasion of the Bauhaus anniversary in the project “Bauhaus Nowhaus” of young designers new: a reminder of the origins of the Bauhaus. The two unique items are from Kerstin fractional houses (left) and Esther Wilson.
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Special editions of the Bauhaus 2019
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chair (1929)
For the “Barcelona®Chair” has the rights of the company Knoll International is the exclusive. For the anniversary year, there is a strictly limited-edition Bauhaus-Edition of only 365 pieces. This chair van der Rohe designed with Lilly Reich in 1929 for the German pavilion for the world exhibition in Barcelona for the Spanish Royal couple. The Edition is from the original coloured dark green Bauhaus leather.
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Special editions of the Bauhaus 2019
Adidas Logo Jaseng99 (2019)
The platform 99designs.de brings together designers and potential customers. To mark the anniversary of the Bauhaus, there was a competition for the Bauhaus-inspired Logos of well-known brands with the appropriate font types should be submitted. The Adidas Logo of Jaseng99 liked the users best. For the font types you need no license and can be downloaded for free on the Internet.
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Special editions of the Bauhaus 2019
Teapot by Marianne Brandt (1924)
The painter, photographer and designer Marianne Brandt was in the Bauhaus metal workshop, a student and later Deputy head. The new Edition of the teapot from sterling silver represents a model of a teapot in the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The jug is implemented with its round and square elements to the geometric form of the principles of the Bauhaus.
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Special editions of the Bauhaus 2019
Sugar cream Service, of Marianne of fire, the (1928)
The company Alessi produces since the mid-1980s, some of the Bauhaus products under the license of the Bauhaus archive. This includes models of ashtrays and the of Marianne Brandt and Helmut Schulze-designed sugar-cream Set. For the anniversary year they will be as Bauhaus Edition special packaging.
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Special editions of the Bauhaus 2019
Table lamp by Wilhelm Wagenfeld (1924)
Wilhelm Wagenfeld was 24 years old when he was taken on as an apprentice in the Bauhaus workshop in Weimar. Were meant to the designs of his table lamp for the industrial production. The first pieces were made by hand and not in series. Even today, the “Wagenfeld table lamp WA 24” by the company Tecnolumen is manufactured to the Original specifications of the car field.
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Special editions of the Bauhaus 2019
Building game by Alma Siedhoff-Buscher (1924)
Alma Siedhoff-Buscher designed this building game, in which the sides of the blocks were originally different colors, during their training at the Bauhaus. The game was part of the children’s room in the model house “Am Horn” in Weimar. After that, it was produced in different versions in the workshops of the Bauhaus. Since 1977, the Swiss company Naef games AG produced the game as a replica.
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Special editions of the Bauhaus 2019
The cradle by Peter Keler (1922)
The original cradle by Peter Keler was unstable and was not realized to the Bauhaus times in the series. The Tecta has produced a steel frame for the first time in 1975. Keler thanked Tecta with his first full-color design of the cradle as a gift. To the anniversary of the Bauhaus, the company Naef has a miniature model of a cradle, a under license by Tecta.
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Special editions of the Bauhaus 2019
Cantilever chair by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
The cantilever chair by Marcel Breuer, Mies van der Rohe and Mart Stam belong to the classics of the Bauhaus furniture. To mark the anniversary of the art and design school of the company Thonet has launched a limited Edition of the famous “cantilever chair S 533 F” of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: The racks of tubular steel armchairs are made of “pearl gloss chrome” and “champagne chrome”, the cover is made from nubuck leather.
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Special editions of the Bauhaus 2019
Marcel Breuer’s “Wassily Chair”(1925/26)
Hans Knoll and founded the furniture company Knoll International in 1938, in the United States. About the contacts of his father to artists such as Walter Gropius or Marcel Breuer, this provided him with their furniture designs initially without a fee. So Knoll also got the license for the Wassily chair by Marcel Breuer, unlike the Name suggests – has nothing to do with the painter Wassily Kandinsky.
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Special editions of the Bauhaus 2019
Marcel Breuer’s foldable tubular steel chair (1927)
Marcel Breuer, Tecta has the folding “steel-tube chair D4” in the program, which was designed on the occasion of the Bauhaus anniversary in the project “Bauhaus Nowhaus” of young designers new: a reminder of the origins of the Bauhaus. The two unique items are from Kerstin fractional houses (left) and Esther Wilson.
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Special editions of the Bauhaus 2019
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chair (1929)
For the “Barcelona®Chair” has the rights of the company Knoll International is the exclusive. For the anniversary year, there is a strictly limited-edition Bauhaus-Edition of only 365 pieces. This chair van der Rohe designed with Lilly Reich in 1929 for the German pavilion for the world exhibition in Barcelona for the Spanish Royal couple. The Edition is from the original coloured dark green Bauhaus leather.
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Special editions of the Bauhaus 2019
Adidas Logo Jaseng99 (2019)
The platform 99designs.de brings together designers and potential customers. To mark the anniversary of the Bauhaus, there was a competition for the Bauhaus-inspired Logos of well-known brands with the appropriate font types should be submitted. The Adidas Logo of Jaseng99 liked the users best. For the font types you need no license and can be downloaded for free on the Internet.
The silver teapot of Marianne Brandt, the famous “Director chair F 51” by Walter Gropius, or the popular Wagenfeld-table lamp: All the Bauhaus design icons, which is still produced in the Original and sold to be adapted to the needs of today.
The Bauhaus anniversary of the armchair F 51 shines by Martin Gropius in various colors
So there is the Director’s chair, the furniture company Tecta making, in a variety of colors and materials: “If we were to restore the chair at the Bauhaus in cherry wood with a lemon yellow fabric, then you can imagine how little we would sell,” says Christian Drescher, managing Director of Tecta.
Because the people are greater today than in the 1920s, to the founding years of the art and design school “Bauhaus”, the furniture company Thonet, the seat of the “cantilever chair S32” to two inches, to 46 inches increased. The so-called cantilever are well-developed hind-leg-less, resilient Kragstühle, such as Marcel Breuer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Mart Stam tubular steel.
The license for reproduction according to strict rules
Who has the license for the reproduction of Bauhaus products, must not change the shape. The seal for an Original Bauhaus model assigns the Bauhaus-archive in Berlin, which manages the rights of use and copyrights for many of the design icons. The seal of approval requires that the products were actually designed at the Bauhaus or in the time that a license exists and that the objects are faithfully reproduced.
The copyright lies mostly with the descendants of the great Bauhaus designers. “But there is no uniform legal situation,” says Annemarie Jaeggi, Director of the Bauhau-archive. “You have to look at each artist, extra, and after 70 years, the copyright expires then anyway.”The copyright only applies to products manufactured in Germany or sold. “The big money is with the licenses. There are only a handful of companies that are interested in it,” says Jaeggi.
In 1949, the American architect Philip Johnson, established his well-known “Glass House” of Mies van der Rohe “Barcelona”chairs
Adventurous hunting for the licenses
Most of the licenses in the world, the furniture manufacturer Tecta, has over 30 Bauhaus models in the program. Axel Bruchhäuser took over the company after he had fled in 1972, after the expropriation from the GDR to the West. Today, his nephew Christian Drescher head of the company. On many adventurous journeys fractional houses felt the Bauhaus designers and their descendants.
Christian Drescher and Axel Bruchhäuser have opened for the Kragstühle and benches and even a private Museum. Here, the two-seater F 51-2
Of the widow, Ise Gropius, he received the license for the “Director’s armchair F 51”. “She has us GDR-refugees, like the license, because Gropius was a refugee. He had to flee from the Nazis”, remembers Axel Bruchhäuser. The special feature of this chair: The armrests are not connected with the seat and collar. As a result, the chair gets a lightness, the furniture is the hallmark of the Bauhaus.
This lightness is continued in the so-called “cantilever”. The architect and Designer Mart Stam Axel bruchhäuser tracked after four years of research in Switzerland. “Stam suffered from delusions of persecution and was staying in ten different Hotels under different names. I managed Only to talk to him.”
Behind every license a story
The German company Thonet has turned to especially the furniture of the Bauhaus members. With the famous Viennese coffee house chairs, the bentwood chairs, the company’s founder Michael Thonet in 1859, the world famous. He succeeded in solid beech wood to bend.
The cantilever chair S 32 of Thonet in different versions
In the 1920s, Mies van der Rohe and Marcel Breuer came up with their designs of tubular steel chairs to the company. “Did you know furniture, Thonet, the Bentwood and wanted Thonet bending steel,” says designer Susanne grain of Thonet. In this way it was possible to manufacture the tubular steel chairs and cantilever industrial. “Marcel Breuer brought to the wood-wattle on the “cantilever chair S 32″. It is still the most successful Bauhaus chair, the Thonet sold.”
The building game by Alma Siedhoff-Buscher
Belongs to the well-known design objects, the building game by Alma Siedhoff-Buscher, consisting of colorful blocks of different shapes and colors. It is produced today by the Swiss toy company Naef games AG. Hans Maria Wingler, had founded in 1960, the Bauhaus archive was entered into the company with the idea to resume production.
“It was a challenge, a prototype, because there were only a few full original games,” says Designer and product Manager of Naef, Heiko Hillig. Alma Siedhoff-Buscher created your kit, there was not as precise tools as it is today. “Of the blocks, some were not square and not quite a grade,” explains Hillig. This was adjusted by the machine production with Naef. Since 1977, the building game is back on the market. To 100. Anniversary of the Bauhaus, it is asked in your own online shop from Naef and sold out at the Moment.
Earlier Flop, today icon
In the time of their construction, all Bauhaus products, which are popular today were not long ago, in series. So also the famous wagon box was not able to excite light at the time. “From the 1920s, there are only around 20 lights, which Wilhelm Wagenfeld in 1923 designed and built,” explains managing Director Carsten Hotzan by the company Tecnolumen, making the lamp since the 1980s. The company’s founder and art collector Walter Schnepel was found Fallen on the table lamp with the semi-ball shaped milk glass shade.
The Wagenfeld lamp is today one of the most famous Bauhaus classics
“But also the beginning of the 1980s, it was difficult, because the trade has not included the lamp,” explains Hotzan. In the meantime, the car field is to imagine light as little out of the range of Tecnolumen, such as the famous silver teapot by Marianne Brandt. Walter Schnepel had visited Marianne Brand, who lived at that time in the GDR, personally, to acquire the license for the pot. “The products would have such a great success, had at that time no one suspected,” says Carsten Hotzan.
In spite of 100 years anniversary: the Bauhaus products niche products are
Who wants to have an Original Bauhaus design piece, you must pay a lot of. The silver teapot by Marianne Brand for 8900 euros. The Gropius Director chair costs depending on the equipment between 2000 and 3000 euros, and the famous cradle by Peter Keler, which is also manufactured by Tecta, is from 1900 euros.
Reason for the special manufacturing techniques and the high labor costs in Germany. “The Bauhaus members had requested that their furniture is manufactured in large quantities industrially and thus affordable for everyone. This bill is not risen,” says Christian Drescher. But who will buy a licensed Original, know yourself and pay attention to the Details. “Such buyers also want to know the background, until you make a purchase, and in this niche we are moving.”