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Mart Stam Freischwinger S34 for Thonet
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Professionalbad bentheim, GermanyOn Whoppah since December 2022 • 76 sales
Product description
Condition: Upholstered in white leather. The leather shows moderate signs of wear.
All chairs feature Thonet embossing on the leather.
Description
Mart Stam was a Dutch architect, urban planner, and furniture designer.
In the early stages of his career, Mart Stam worked as an architect in the Netherlands and Germany in the 1920s on various now-historic projects. Among them was the Weissenhof Estate in Stuttgart (1927), now a UNESCO World Heritage Site. Here, the organizer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, is presenting Mart Stam's design for the legless chair to the public for the first time: the cantilever chairs S33 and S34. The idea of the two-legged cantilever chair ("Why four legs when two are enough?") with a frame made solely of a bent piece of tubular steel was completely revolutionary. This piece of furniture symbolizes the innovative spirit of the Bauhaus—simplicity and functionality—like no other design.
He also taught as a guest lecturer in urban planning at the Bauhaus Dessau and was co-editor of the avant-garde journal ABC. In 1939, Stam and his wife emigrated to the Soviet Union. As members of the "Brigade May," they designed the construction of various Soviet model cities. After returning to the Netherlands, he accepted a teaching position at the Institute for Art and Design in Amsterdam, where he became its director. In 1948, Mart Stam once again settled in a communist state. In the GDR, he taught at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts and became director of the Berlin-Weißensee School of Applied Arts (KHB) in 1950.
In the wake of the "formal dispute" in the GDR, which marked a renunciation of artistic freedom, Mart Stam left the GDR in disillusionment. Returning to his homeland, the Netherlands, he worked as a freelance architect. However, Stam was unable to repeat the successes of earlier years.
In 1966, Stam retired to Switzerland. From then on, he maintained no contact with former colleagues or friends.
Mart Stam died in Goldach in 1986.
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ConditionVery goodColorsWhiteMaterialLeatherNumber of items1BrandThonetHeight83 cmWidth58 cmDepth62 cmSeat height45 cmSigns of usageScratches
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Professionalbad bentheim, GermanyOn Whoppah since December 2022 • 76 sales