Bauhaus Lounger, Erich Dieckmann, c. 1930s

Bauhaus Lounger Erich Dieckmann ca 1930s

A rare and beautiful Bauhaus lounger designed by Erich Dieckmann, circa 1930. Made of rattan and bamboo with steel parts that have a great patina. The armrest has a cup holder, and on the other side you can store your newspaper or magazine. Almost a museum piece these days!

Erich Dieckmann was one of the pre-eminent furniture designers of the Bauhaus and, like Marcel Breuer, experimented with steel tubing, standardisation and geometric forms in the 1920s and 1930s. Dieckmann was born in present-day Poland in 1896. He studied architecture from 1918 to 1920 at the Technical University of Gdańsk and served a carpentry apprenticeship at the Bauhaus in Weimar from 1921 to 1925. When the Bauhaus moved to Dessau in 1925, he remained in Weimar and became head of the carpentry workshop at the State University of Applied Sciences until 1930.

Throughout the 1930s he designed furniture, worked for various carpentry workshops and consulted for interior and craft design companies. His furniture is often characterised by quality hardwoods, cane matting and geometric frames that link the armrests and legs, creating a distinctive runner construction. Designing affordable, enduring pieces that could be mass-produced was one of his key aims. Dieckmann died in Berlin in 1944, leaving behind an iconic body of Bauhaus seating.

Why we chose this piece

A rare piece of design history, in which the clever, functional thinking of the Bauhaus meets warm natural materials.

Style and interior

An eye-catcher in a Bauhaus, modernist or design interior, yet equally striking in a natural interior with plenty of rattan and wood.

Material: rattan, bamboo, steel
Designer/Maker: Erich Dieckmann
Style: Bauhaus
Period: circa 1930
Condition: steel parts with a great patina

Price:
€ 795

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