Gartenstuhl, Schinkel, 1820 – Vitra Miniature Design Museum
Vitra
Miniature of the Miniature Collection, Vitra Design
Museum. Industrialization, with its new manufacturing techniques
and materials began to supplant the traditional turner’s and
woodcarver’s crafts in
furniture-making. Long before Michael Thonet’s first experiments with
bent wood the use of iron had led to important innovations in this
field. As early as 1736 an armaments manufacturer established by tsar
Peter the Great started to produce large quantities of furniture made of
cast iron. Karl Friedrich Schinkel, a Prussian master builder,
also used the cast iron process to rationalize furniture production. It
was Schinkel’s architectural work in particular which earned him the
reputation of one of the major exponents of German »classicism«, but his
work as a furniture designer was also of great significance. His
elegant interpretations of the »classics« produced designs of formal
austerity
for all kinds of different purposes. Schinkel’s designs included not
only wooden furniture but also, at the beginning of the 19th century,
large numbers of iron trestle tables, garden furniture and other items
of furniture.
Material: Cast iron.
Miniature, scale 1:6. 88 x 133 x 81 mm.
Manufacturers of the full-scale (1:1) model since 1991 Tecta, Lauenförde/Germany, www.tecta.de
Phase-out model 2010.
Miniature, scale 1:6. 88 x 133 x 81 mm.
Manufacturers of the full-scale (1:1) model since 1991 Tecta, Lauenförde/Germany, www.tecta.de
Phase-out model 2010.
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