D51 ARMCHAIR

Walter Gropius

YEAR: 1923
DIMENSIONS W x D x H (cm): 60 x 56 x 79 cm
FINISH: Fabric or Leather.
FRAME: Solid Ash , natural, black or white lacquered
WARRANTY: 2 Year
LEAD TIME: Approx. 16-18 weeks

Gropius’ D51 chair from 1923, with its backward-jutting armrests and straight back, looks pretty austere. The rear legs support the backrest, the front legs sweep freely into the room together with the protruding armrests.

This is a small piece of architecture created by Walter Gropius, linear and constructive. The chair and the D51-2 and D51-3 sofas are a perfect match for the minimal architecture of the factory in which they were conceived - a cradle of modernism.

Handmade to order in Germany. Accredited by the Bauhaus Archives in Berlin.

WALTER GROPIUS

1883 - 1969

Architect and founder of the Bauhaus, Walter Gropius abandoned his architecturalstudies in Germany in 1908 and joined the office of Peter Behrens, along with, Adolf Meyer, Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier. A short time later, Gropius founded what we now call modernism, a major break from and with the conventions of the past.

In 1919 Gropius was appointed director of the Grand Ducal Saxon School of Arts and Crafts in Weimar and named the new school “State Bauhaus Weimar”.

Walter Gropius directed the Bauhaus until its closure in 1933, emigrated toEngland in 1934 and to Cambridge, USA, in 1937 to teach as professor of architecture at Harvard University.

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