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THING of the month
August 2010:
Library chair
There would have almost been a "second Bauhaus". In the beginning of the 1950s the former Bauhaus pupil Herbert Hirche planned an academy for applied arts in Mannheim. A Bauhaus-orientated basic teaching, a close cooperation with industrial enterprises and a practical education covering the whole course of studies should have been central elements of the teaching plan. The city of Mannheim had already confirmed its support, there was room and there were teachers. Everybody was only waiting for the funds of the land of Baden-Württemberg. When the funds finally went to the newly established Hochschule für Gestaltung in Ulm, the plans for Hirche's Mannheim school were abandoned. He was called to teach at the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Stuttgart where structures were less flexible. But Hirche achieved that its conventional carpenter's workshop was turned into a model institution for design and interior design, where any material could be worked on. A lot of designs were developed and produced in the Academy workshops until they were fit for mass production. This chair dating from 1962 was produced for the Academy’s library.
Hirche's grey chair and a lot of other grey things will be shown at the Long Night of Museums on August 28th, 2010 at the Werkbundarchiv – Museum der Dinge. All cats are grey by night…
to be seen in our current special exhibition "brilliant grey - herbert
hirche's centenary", more
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