Lecture 10 Modernism and the Rise of Industrial Design

Dutch Pavilion, by Jan Frederik Staal, 1925

Pieter Kramer and Michel de Klerk, De Dageraad (“The Dawn”), dwellings built for the socialist housing

Michel de Klerk, The Ship (‘Het schip’), dwellings built for the socialistic housing association Eigen Haard, Amsterdam, 1914-1920

Michel de Klerk, Clock, 1914.

Michel de Klerk, Ameublement, 1916. Beech-, nut-, ebony-, coromandel- and palmwood, decorated with turtle/frog-like sculptures

Jaap Gidding, Tuschinski cinema in Amsterdam, 1920s.

Jaap Gidding, chair, 1923-1925, wood, upholstered with “trijp” (velours d’Utrecht), decorated with Indonesian batik print

Wendingen: Maandblad voor Bouwen en Sieren (monthly magazine for building and decorating), first (left) and second (right) covers by J. L. M. Lauweriks and Michel de Klerk (1918)

Wendingen, cover made by El Lissitzky, 1921 (left), dedicated to Frank Lloyd Wright; Cover 1924 (right), dedicated to Eileen Gray

Theo van Doesburg, cover of the magazine De Stijl, 1923

Theo van Doesburg, Composition III, 1917

Theo van Doesburg, stained-glass windows for the dwellings for workers in Spangen, Rotterdam, by J. Oud, 1918-1920.

Gerrit Rietveld, Rietveld- Schröder House, Utrecht, 1924

Gerrit Rietveld, hanging light-fixture, 1922-23

Red-Yellow-Blue Chair, 1923.

Gerrit Rietveld, Armchair, 1918-1920

Wassily Kandinsky, postcard for the Bauhaus Exhibition in Weimar, 1923.

Henry van de Velde, Bauhaus, Weimar.

Walter Gropius, Bauhaus, Dessau, 1925

Marcel Breuer, Wassily chair, Model nr. B3, 1925-27. Canvas, leather, nickel plated/chromed.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Legless chair M10/1, designed 1927. Tubular steel, nickel-plated; Eisengarn canvas.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich, “Barcelona chair”, MR 90, designed 1929. Flat steel, chrome-plated; leather straps and cushions with foam padding and leather covering, buttoned and tufted.

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich, Barcelona Pavilion, German pavilion at the 1929 International Exhibition

Anni Albers designs, 1926

Stölzl’s Design for a Wall Hanging, c. 1927. Victoria and Albert Museum, London

Marianne Brandt, Teapot, 1924. Silver and ebony

Marianne Brandt. 1893–1983. Table Clock. c. 1932. Painted and chrome-plated metal. Mfr: Ruppelwerk GmbH, Gotha, Germany.

Marianne Brandt, Kandem Bedside Table lamp, 1928. Lacquered steel.

Bedroom in the house by Le Corbusier and Pierre Jeanneret, 1927

Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand, Salon d’automne, 1929

Charlotte Perriand, Revolving Chair, designed 1927, this example manufactured by Thonet Brothers, 1930-33. Chrome-plated steel, leather.

Charlotte Perriand, Revolving Chair, designed 1927, this example manufactured by Thonet Brothers, 1930-33. Chrome-plated steel, leather.

Eileen Gray and Jean Badovici, Villa E-1207, 1929. Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France.

Eileen Gray, Fauteuil Transatlantic (“Transat”), 1925- 1930, designed for Villa E-1027. Sycamore, chromium-plated metal upholstery; faux leather

Eileen Gray, Adjustable Bedside Table E-1027, ca. 1929, designed for her villa at Roquebrune-Cap-Martin, France.

Eileen Gray, Lacquered screen, 1922. MoMA, New York.

“Dragon Chair”, c. 1918, previously in the collection of Yves Saint Laurent, sold by Christies in 2009 for EUR 21,905,00 (“The World’s Most Expensive Chair”).

Neues Frankfurt project, 1925-30, managed by Ernst May, in collaboration with Max Cetto, Martin Elsaesser, Walter Gropius, Ferdinand Kramer, Adolf Meyer, Bruno Taut, Grete Schütte-Lihotzky, and Mart Stam; image of the “Rundling” building

Frankfurt Kitchen, designed by Grete Schütte-Lihotsky, 1926,