How a Chair Transformed the World: Furniture Design and Tubular Steel at the Bauhaus With Kristin Bartels
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The Bauhaus tubular steel furniture – above all the famous cantilever chair – ranks among the most popular objects at the Bauhaus-Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung and is regarded as an icon of modern furniture design. But how modern were these tubular steel pieces really? And what ideas of modern living and lifestyle were associated with them?
In conversation with curator Kristin Bartels, this episode sheds light on the origins of the tubular steel chairs and gets to the bottom of a long-standing myth.