F51
Category
Armchairs
Brands
Designers
Dimensions
L 70 cm - P 70 cm - H 42/70 cm
Finiture
Oak, Walnuts, Ash, Coating on request
Year
1920
The F51 is the iconic armchair designed by Walter Gropius for the director's room at the Bauhaus in Weimar. Its protruding armrests are a foretaste of Mart Stam's legless chairs and prefigure Marcel Breuer's stool on runners. With a bold approach to design, the armchair radically challenges traditional conventions, marking an important step in the evolution of design thinking.
Tecta
Tecta is synonymous with Bauhaus conceived in a contemporary key, based in Lauenförde, on the curved banks of the Weser. It is in the Tecta studio in this town that for over 40 years the avant-gardes of design have followed one another: the British architect Smithson, the architect of Mies van der Rohe, Sergius Ruegenberg, Jean Prouvé, the designer Stefan Wewerka and Ati Gropius, the daughter of the founder of the Bauhaus.
Walter Gropius
Walter Gropius (1883-1969) was a German architect and designer, founder of the Bauhaus in 1919, a school that revolutionized modern design and architecture, combining art, craftsmanship and industry. Pioneer of Functionalism, he promoted simple and essential forms, based on functionality. With the rise of Nazism he emigrated to the USA, where he taught at Harvard, influencing generations of architects. Among his most famous works are the Bauhaus Building in Dessau and the Pan Am Building in New York, evidence of his impact on 20th century architecture.
