LOT DETAILS

Materials:

cherrywood, partly stained, together with ebonised oak, walnut and bird's eye maple veneered games box

Measurements:

2.56 in. (6.50 cm.) (height) by 5.31 in. (13.50 cm.) (width) by 5.24 in. (13.30 cm.) (width)

Description:

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Markings:

with metal plaque inside box impressed Hartwig Weimar/Bauhaus Ges. Gesch.

Literature:

Walter Gropius and Laszló Moholy-Nagy, Eds., . Bauhausbücher: Neue Arbeiten der Bauhauswerkstätten , . Vol. 7 , Munich 1925, pp. 43-45. Herbert Bayer, . Das Bauhaus in Dessau: Katalog der Muster , 1925, n.p. Magdalena Droste, . Bauhaus: 1919-1933 , Cologne 1990, pp. 94-95. Magdalena Droste and Peter Hahn, et al., Eds., . Bauhaus Archive Berlin The Collection, Berlin 1999, p. 90. Exh. Cat., Weil am Rhein, Vitra Design Museum and Bonn, Bundeskunsthalle, . the Bauhaus: #itsalldesign , September 2015 - August 2016, p. 289, no. 277 for an advertisement, cat. 278. Jeannine Fiedler and Peter Feierabend, Eds., . BAUHAUS , Potsdam 2016, p. 406. Exh. Cat., Paris, Musée des Arts décoratifs, . L'esprit du Bauhaus , October 2016 - February 2017, p. 196, fig. 2 for an advertisement

Provenance:

Estate of Dr Baender, U.S.A., who acquired the set directly from the Bauhaus in Weimar as a student. Sotheby's, New York,. Pioneering 20th Century Design: The Torsten Bröhan Collection , 8 March, 2005, lot 110