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Daybed / Lits de repos, Modern movement, Mid century - Germany
Daybed / Daybed
Style : Modern movement
Materials: Metal, imitation leather, chenille
Period: Mid-century
Country of origin: Germany
Good condition considering age and use.
Dimensions closed: 58 x 132 x 70 cm.
Dimensions open : 38 x 204 x 70 cm.
Mattress dimensions : 14 x 115 x 68 cm.
Cushion dimensions : 63 x 17 x 17 x 17 cm.
Seat height : 38 cm.
Extraordinary daybed following the lines of the mid-twentieth-century Modern Movement. Very light metal structure, supported by 4 slender square legs. The outward-opening armrests are covered in imitation leather and adorned with studs. The rectangular cushion or mattress rests on a lattice base and is upholstered in camel-colored chenille. The design adopts a resolutely modern aesthetic that favors elegance, comfort and simplicity, characteristics that enable it to blend easily into an environment that follows aesthetic lines that are both modern and classic.
The modern movement
The modern movement originated in twentieth-century architecture, but quickly spread to design. It emerged as a reaction to and break with classical architecture, proposing a much more functional architecture and design, in which form follows function, without decorative artifice. In architecture as in furniture, it eschews all decorative objects and focuses on utility, from which it derives its beauty.
It was the Bauhaus school of art and design, founded in 1919 by Gropius in Weimar, Germany, that championed a total commitment to functionalism, logic, order and purity of line. It introduced the concept of "good design", rejecting ornamentation, supporting the use of industrial materials and championing the ethical dimension of the architect and designer. When the Bauhaus movement was banned by Hitler in Nazi Germany in 1933, its impact had already spread worldwide. Its legacy is indispensable, as it laid the foundations, standards and models for what we know today as industrial and graphic design.
Specifications
ConditionGoodHeight58 cmWidth132 cmDepth70 cm