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Set of 6 Armchairs „SS 32“ by Anton Lorenz for Desta Stahlrohrmöbel GmbH 1930
About the Item
Extremely rare and early set of 6 Armchairs mod. SS 32 by Anton Lorenz, manufactured by Desta Stahlrohrmöbel GmbH in Berlin, Germany in circa 1930.
This early Desta mod. SS 32 was ordered with chromed tubular steel, rattan weave (shows patina and wear) and colored wooden armrests (in original condition, original black coloring still partly visible, production marking on the underside).
Provenance:
House Tanneck, Bad Wiessee at Tegernsee in Bavaria, Germany, Family Furtwängler, last Maria Furtwängler.
About Anton Lorenz and Desta Stahlrohrmöbel GmbH:
The Berlin company is one of the pioneers of modern tubular steel furniture
DESTA. Very early on, she developed a trend-setting new typology for living room, bedroom and office furniture, which became decisive for the style of tubular steel furniture in the 1930s.
When in 1929 the company STANDARD von
THONET was bought by the former managing director, Anton Lorenz
(1891 - 1964), the DESTA company. After only three years, DESTA with its elegant furniture range was also taken over by THONET.
In 1929, Anton Lorenz acquired the rights to use the cantilever tubular steel chair with no back legs from the Dutch architect Mart Stam, and by 1939 he had become an eminence grise in the European tubular steel business. Like Marcel Breuer and Kalman Lengyel, Anton Lorenz came from Hungary. He was trained for school service. After marrying an opera singer, he came to Berlin in the 1920s. There he initially specialized in a shop for locks and fittings. Then he sold protective devices and safes before he appeared in the management after founding the company STANDARD Möbel GmbH.
When handing over STANDARD to THONET, Lorenz wisely reserved the rights to the cantilever models then in the development phase. This resulted in the chair ST12 (at THONET B33) and the SS32. These models were already manufactured as prototypes at STANDARD under the direction of Lorenz.
Lorenz recognized very early on the economic value of consistently marketing Mart Stam's cantilever chairs. While Stam was already working on urban planning again under Ernst May in Russia, Lorenz expanded his patent strategy.
He did not register all patents in DESTA, but in his name.
He established a personal monopoly that neither Marcel Breuer nor the architect Hans Luckhardt, who designed for DESTA, could fight. Lorenz offered him a share of 60 Reichspfennigs per chair sold if Luckhardt did not claim any patents for himself.
Lorenz seems not only to have been a managing director who was savvy when it came to patent law, but also a pragmatist who was able to adapt the designs to market requirements. Decisive improvements can be traced back to him, such as the receding braces between the front legs of the chair. The native Hungarian also had this patented.
Source/ Literature:
Vegesack, Deutsche Stahlrohrmöbel, München 1986, S. 48.
- Creator:Anton Lorenz (Designer),Desta Stahlmöbel Gmbh (Manufacturer)
- Dimensions:Height: 33.08 in (84 cm)Width: 21.66 in (55 cm)Depth: 25.6 in (65 cm)
- Sold As:Set of 6
- Style:Bauhaus (Of the Period)
- Materials and Techniques:
- Place of Origin:
- Period:
- Date of Manufacture:circa 1930
- Condition:Wear consistent with age and use.
- Seller Location:Wien, AT
- Reference Number:1stDibs: LU8974235227442
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