OSKO+DEICHMANN - Lot 116

OSKO+DEICHMANN Édition limitée Straw chair Chaise en acier tubulaire plié et cuir noir moulé. Made of folded tubular steel for the frame and black leather. 2009 H_86 cm L_54 cm P_48 cm The bent tubular steel has been heralded as the symbol of modernity in furniture design ever since the radical innovations designed by Mart Stam and Marcel Breuer in the 1920s. The industrial technique completely innovated household design, and matured to an undisputed iconic element of design vocabulary. With "Straw" osko+deichmann pay hommage to the classic Cantilever Chair by visually and physically challenging tradition and implementing a controversial detail into the canon of the design: The kinked tube. The kink, being the most immediate way to deform a tube, revolutionises the esthetic appearance of tubular steel furniture. The disciplined character of the Bauhaus classic idiom is contradicted, the objects seem spontaneous as if folded by hand.