F51 SOFA

Walter Gropius

YEAR: 1920
F51-2 DIMENSIONS W x D x H (cm): 140 x7 5x 70cm F51-3 DIMENSIONS W x D x H (cm):: 215 x 75 x70cm
FINISH: Fabric or Leather.
FRAME:  Solid Ash , natural, black or white lacquered, Solid Walnut, Solid Oak or sharp-edge high glossed Lacquer (special colour RAL)
WARRANTY: 2 Year
LEAD TIME: Approx. 16-18 weeks

Gropius’ two and three seater sofas evolved organically out of the F51 cube armchair. The floating cushions and signature cantilever design is a visualisation of his quote ‘The goal of modern architecture is to defy gravity and overcome the earth’s inertia in impression and appearance’.

The faithful re-edition of the three-seater sofa was followed by the development of an elegant two seater version, following the lines of Gropius’ constructivist 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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