Art Deco Bauhaus Vintage Chromed Tube Metal Sofa Daybed Franz Singer 1920s
By Franz Singer
Located in Vienna, AT
Art Deco Bauhaus vintage sofa or daybed from chromed tube steel designed by Franz Singer for Metz & Co 1920s, Austria.
Metal
$8,055
Sofa DS-142, de Sede
By De Sede
Located in Neuss, NW
Multifunctional DS-142 sofa from the 1990s by Winfried Totzek for de Sede with the original leather cover in black. The back- and armrests can be infinitely moved to different positi...
Leather
Bauhaus S3001 Club Tub Armchairs by Christoph Zschoke, Black Leather
By Thonet
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Stunning and elegant Bauhaus style S3001 club tub armchairs Design by Christoph Zschoke for Thonet.
Chrome
$4,466 / item
Tom Sofa Designed by Ahmet Kaleli
By Norde
Located in Alemdağ, TR
The TOM Sofa by Norde, designed by Ahmet Kaleli, is a contemporary leather sofa defined by its minimalist structure and refined industrial character. Featuring a polished metal frame...
Chrome
Bauhaus Style S3002 Club Tub Armchairs by Christoph Zschoke for Thonet, 2000s
By Thonet
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Stunning and elegant Bauhaus style S3001 club tub armchairs Design by Christoph Zschoke for Thonet.
Chrome
Le Corbusier LC2 Vintage White Leather Sofa by Cassina
By Cassina, Le Corbusier
Located in Munich, Bavaria
This LC2 three-seat sofa in white leather was designed by Le Corbusier and produced by Cassina. It features a black colored tubular steel frame. The leather has some patina. Some...
Leather, Upholstery, Lacquer
Le Corbusier 2 Seater LC2 Vintage White Leather Sofa by Cassina
By Le Corbusier, Cassina
Located in Munich, Bavaria
This LC2 two seater sofa in white leather was designed by Le Corbusier and produced by Cassina. It features a black colored tubular steel frame. The leather has some patina. Some...
Leather, Upholstery, Lacquer
Werner Max Moser Sofa for Wohnbedarf, Switzerland, 1930s
By Werner Max Moser, Wohnbedarf
Located in Milan, IT
Rare Architect Werner Max Moser sofa for Wohnbedarf, Switzerland, 1930s.
Metal
Le Corbusier LC2 Sofa in Black Leather & Chrome, Cassina
By Cassina, Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand Cassina
Located in Grand Cayman, KY
Timelessly iconic Le Corbusier LC2 two-seater sofa in chrome tube steel and black leather. Made in Italy by Cassina. Signed with serial number. The LC2 was designed in 1928 by Le Co...
Steel, Chrome
Eileen Gray Monte Carlo Sofa for ClassiCon, Black Leather and Chrome, Signed
By Eileen Gray
Located in Kansas City, MO
Monte Carlo Sofa designed in Eileen Gray in 1929 and produced by ClassiCon in the 2000s.
Chrome
Robert Haussmann De Sede Rh 302 Sofa and Armchair Black
By Robert Haussmann, De Sede
Located in Munich, Bavaria
Robert Haussmann RH 302 2-seat sofa and armchair manufactured by De Sede. The sofa and chair were reupholstered some years ago in black Kvadrat Halingdal fabric. Chrome steel frame...
Chrome
Le Corbusier LC2 Armchair + 2-Seat Sofa Set in Black Leather & Chrome
By Cassina, Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand Cassina, Alivar
Located in Grand Cayman, KY
Timelessly iconic Le Corbusier LC2 set of 2-seater sofa and armchair in chrome tube steel and black leather. The LC2 was designed in 1928 by Le Corbusier; his cousin and colleague ...
Steel, Chrome
$10,165Sale Price|33% Off
Early Year LC2 Black Leather Three-Seat Sofa by Le Corbusier for Cassina, Signed
By Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand, Cassina, Le Corbusier
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This elegant and sophisticated LC-2 sofa by Le Corbusier for Cassina would work great in a Mid-Century Modern, Bauhaus, Scandanavian Modern or Danish modern home or penthouse apartme...
Steel
Le Corbusier LC2 Armchair + 3-Seat Sofa Set in Black Leather & Chrome, Alivar
By Alivar, Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand Cassina, Cassina
Located in Grand Cayman, KY
Timelessly iconic Le Corbusier LC2 set of 3-seater sofa and armchair in chrome tube steel and black leather. Made in Italy by Alivar, a highly collectible licensed / authorized produ...
Steel, Chrome
Leather LC3 Grand Confort Sofa by Le Corbusier & C. Perriand for Cassina (1/2)
By Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand Cassina, Pierre Jeanneret, Le Corbusier, Cassina, Charlotte Perriand
Located in Izegem, VWV
The LC3 sofa is an iconic piece of modernist design, designed in 1928 by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, and Charlotte Perriand. The sofa is a symbol of timeless elegance and excepti...
Chrome
Le Corbusier LC2 Sofa in Chic Mango Fabric with Peach Tube Steel, Cassina
By Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand Cassina, Cassina
Located in Grand Cayman, KY
Timelessly iconic Le Corbusier LC2 three-seater sofa in peach tube steel and herringbone-patterned mango fabric. Made in Italy by Cassina. Signed with serial number. The LC2 was des...
Steel
Robert Haussmann for Hans Kaufeld or De Sede RH 302 Leather Sofa First Edition
By Robert Haussmann, Hans Kaufeld, De Sede
Located in Munich, Bavaria
Robert Haussmann RH 302 3-seat sofa manufactured by Hans Kaufeld. This sofa is the first early production for Hans Kaufeld. Later it was manufactured by De Sede. Just see the labe...
Chrome
Robert Haussmann for Hans Kaufeld or De Sede RH 302 Leather Sofa First Edition
By Hans Kaufeld, De Sede, Robert Haussmann
Located in Munich, Bavaria
Robert Haussmann RH 302 3-seat sofa manufactured by Hans Kaufeld. This sofa is the first early production for Hans Kaufeld. Later it was manufactured by De Sede. Just see the labe...
Chrome
$18,000 / set
"Le Blu Lagoon" Hand-painted Three-Piece Sofa
By Fort Makers
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Inspired by Yves Klein, this hand-painted three piece sofa by Naomi S. Clark features abstract brushstrokes to evoke the choppy Mediterranean sea. As seen in Fort Makers' exhibition:...
Abalone, Canvas, Foam
Design-Klassiker Brühl Moule in Schwarz, Metallgestell, guter Zustand
By Brühl
Located in Garching a. d. Alz, DE
Hersteller & Design Marke: Brühl Modell: Moule (2-Sitzer) Designer: Addy W. H., 1995 Herkunft: Deutschland Beschreibung Dieses Brühl Moule 2-Sitzer Sofa in tiefschwarzem Leder v...
Metal
Fully Restored Chrome 1960s Seating Set Made by Kovona, in Czech Republic
By Kovona
Located in Brandys nad Labem, Středočeský kraj
This full room set contains one sofa, two armchairs and one stool. They have all been newly upholstered to the original maker's specifications. The dimensions of each item are as fol...
Steel, Chrome
Bauhaus Tubular Steel Couch / Daybed by Rudolf Slezák, Czechoslovakia, ca. 1934
By Robert Slezák
Located in Berlin, DE
This Bauhaus tubular steel couch was produced circa 1934 by the Czechoslovak manufacturer Rudolf Slezák as a company design.
Steel, Chrome, Iron
Matteo Grassi Sofa Designersofa Italian Design Ledersofa Vintage Couch #0387
By Matteo Grassi
Located in Garching a. d. Alz, DE
Matteo Grassi Designersofa Guter Zustand. Minimale Gebrauchsspuren am Holzrahmen Nichtraucherhaushalt Keine Haustiere Leder ist im tadellosen Zustand. Abmessungen: Breite...
Leather, Wood
Tubular Steel Daybed / Couch by Hynek Gottwald – Czechoslovakia, 1930s
By Hana Kucerova-Zaveska
Located in Berlin, DE
This rare tubular steel daybed or sofa was produced in the 1930s by Hynek Gottwald in former Czechoslovakia and represents an outstanding example of early modernist furniture design.
Steel, Chrome
$9,500Sale Price|24% Off
'LC2' Black Leather Settee Sofa Loveseat by Le Corbusier for Cassina, Signed
By Charlotte Perriand, Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Cassina
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This elegant and sophisticated LC-2 couch by Le Corbusier for Cassina would work great in a Mid-Century Modern, Bauhaus, Scandanavian Modern or Danish modern home or penthouse apartm...
Steel
Leather Onda Armchair & Sofa by D'Urbino, Lomazzi & De Pas for Zanotta, 1980s
By Gionathan de Pas & Donato D’Urbino & Paolo Lomazzi, Zanotta
Located in Izegem, VWV
The Onda with his rounded and curved chromed steel frame and comfortable black leather upholstery was designed by De Pas, D’Urbino & Lomazzi and fabricated by Zanotta, Italy in 1985....
Chrome
Leather LC3 Grand Confort Sofa by Le Corbusier & C. Perriand for Cassina (1/2)
By Pierre Jeanneret, Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand Cassina, Cassina, Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand
Located in Izegem, VWV
The LC3 sofa is an iconic piece of modernist design, designed in 1928 by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, and Charlotte Perriand. The sofa is a symbol of timeless elegance and excepti...
Chrome
Space Age Tubular 2-Seater Sofa designed by Johan Bertil Haggstrom for IKEA
By Johan Bertil Häggström, IKEA
Located in Beograd, RS
This vintage IKEA sofa features a Bauhaus-style tubular chrome frame with a fluffy, large seat in yellow mustard.
Steel
The Bauhaus was a progressive German art and design school founded by the architect Walter Gropius that operated from 1919 to 1933. Authentic Bauhaus furniture — sofas, dining chairs, tables and more — and the school’s followers married industrial and natural materials in simple, geometric forms. The goal of the Bauhaus was to erase the distinction between art and craft while embracing the use of new technologies and materials.
ORIGINS OF BAUHAUS FURNITURE DESIGN
CHARACTERISTICS OF BAUHAUS FURNITURE DESIGN
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AUTHENTIC BAUHAUS FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS
The name Bauhaus is derived from the German verb bauen, “to build.” Under the school’s innovative curriculum, students were taught the fine arts, such as painting and sculpture, as well as practical skills like carpentry and metalworking.
The school moved from Weimar in 1925 to the city of Dessau, where it enjoyed its heyday under Gropius, then Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The period from 1932 to 1933 when it operated in Berlin under Mies was its final chapter. Despite its brief existence, the Bauhaus has had an enduring impact on art and design in the United States and elsewhere, and is regarded by many as the 20th century’s chief crucible of modernism.
The faculty roster at the Bauhaus reads like a who’s who of modernist creative genius — it included such artists as Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and László Moholy-Nagy along with architects and designers like Mies and Marcel Breuer, who became known for his muscular brutalist-style concrete buildings in the postwar years. In 1925, while he was head of the Bauhaus carpentry workshop, Breuer gave form to his signature innovation: the use of lightweight tubular-steel frames for chairs, side tables and sofas — a technique soon adopted by Mies and others. Breuer’s Cesca chair was the first-ever tubular steel frame chair with a caned seat to be mass produced, while the inspiration for his legendary Wassily chair, a timeless design and part of the collection crafted to furnish the Dessau school, was the bike he rode around campus.
Bauhaus design style reflects the tenets by which these creators worked: simplicity, clarity and function. They disdained superfluous ornament in favor of precise construction. Seating pieces such as side chairs, armchairs or club chairs for example, were made with tubular metal or molded plywood frames, and upholstery was made from leather or cane. Above all, designs in the Bauhaus style offer aesthetic flexibility. They can be the elements of a wholly spare, minimalist space, the quiet foundation of an environment in which color and pattern come from one’s own collection of art and artifacts.
Today, from textiles to typefaces, architecture, furniture and decorative objects for the home, Bauhaus creations continue to have an outsize influence on modern design.
Find a collection of authentic Bauhaus furniture on 1stDibs.
Vintage couches and antique sofas have anchored living rooms for generations. The pieces most sought after today carry the deep-buttoned tufting of a Chesterfield or the low, sculptural ease of mid-century modern and Hollywood Regency design.
Styles to Know
Rolled arms and tufted backs point to Mid-Century Modern or Hollywood Regency pieces, while tight backs and turned legs skew more traditional. Velvet is enjoying a renewed moment across most of these silhouettes; see our velvet chesterfield sofa trend report for examples. A mid-century modern coffee table within reach and a vintage mirror nearby round out the seating area.
How to Choose the Right Vintage Sofa
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