a wooden desk

CIRCA 1929

Details

a wooden desk
Circa 1929
The rectangular top lined with tobacco-brown linoleum and above inverted U-shape frieze, seat at the front right with a rectangular drawer suspending a rectangular curved pull, on rectangular section legs joined by H-stretcher with exposed keyed tenons
74 cm. high x 94.3cm. long x 63.7cm. wide

Provenance

Purchased by Kitty Fischer-van der Mijll Dekker from the Bauhaus in 1930

Lot Essay

Cf. Magdalena Droste, Hannes Meyer 1889-1954 - Architekt Urbanist Lehrer, Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin, 1989, p. 158, Abb. 35, and Magdalena Droste, Bauhaus 1919-1933, Bauhaus-Archiv, Berlin, 1990, p. 194, for illustrations of a similar desk designed in 1929 by Wera Meyer-Waldeck for the trade union school of the ADGB (Allgemeiner Deutscher Gewerkschaftsbund) in Bernau which was designed by Hannes Meyer and the architectural department of the Bauhaus Dessau in 1928-1930

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