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art book cologne, founded by Bernd Detsch in 1997, is a wholesale company and specializes in buying and selling high quality publications in art, art theory, architecture, design, photography, illustrated cultural history and all related subjects internationally. Our team includes specialists in art, culture, music, book trade and media but in spite of our diversity we have one common ground: the enthusiasm for unique art books.
We purchase remaining stocks from museums, publishers and art institutions. We sell these remainders to bookstores, museum shops, and art dealers all over the world.
Dealer Info | 1 copy 30% discount | 2+ cps. 40% discount |
Editor | Torsten Bröhan, Christoph Janik, Susanne Engelhard |
Publisher | Arnoldsche |
Year | 2023 |
Cover | Hardcover |
Language | German |
ISBN | 978-3-89790-683-9 |
Pages | 360 |
Weight | 2000 g |
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Author(s) | Susanne Graner, Éva Horányi, Roland Jaeger |
Article ID | art-60212 |
The tubular steel furniture by Marcel Breuer (1902–1981) is considered an outstanding design object of the twentieth century.
Yet widely unknown is the development of the first prototype to its early series production. Breuer’s fellow compatriot Kálmán Lengyel (1900–1945), to whom this comprehensive publication is dedicated, played a significant role in this.
In 1927, they founded the company Standard Möbel together, in order to organize the series production and distribution of the tubular steel furniture. The development of the company and the work of Breuer, Lengyel, and the later director Anton Lorenz are depicted here in-depth with hitherto unpublished archive material. As a prominent furniture designer and architect, Lengyel also founded his own furniture brand, Ka-Le-Möbel, worked as an interior designer in Paris, and constructed buildings in Berlin, Szeged, and Budapest. This publication expands our knowledge about the early models and highlights the life and work of the protagonists of the tubular steel revolution!