Seat/Table/Seat/Shelf by Donald Judd

Josef Albers (1888-1976) designed this set of four solid oak and colored glass nesting tables in 1926/27. The original set was created for the Moellenhoff family's apartment in Berlin during the years of Bauhaus when Albers, among other things, was the artistic director of the furniture workshop. The tables are constructed of a solid oak base and the undersides of the glass table tops are lacquered pale green, yellow, orange or blue. Made in Germany by the Josef Albers Foundation. Please allow 10 - 14  days for delivery.

TwinTable is a natural departure into functional sculpture for the painter Richard Roth whose abstract canvases appear minimalist but are actually object-based abstractions. Roth approaches form in painting as geometrical constructs and uses thick, box-like canvases to give his paintings a substantial, three-dimensional form. TwinTable not only looks like one of Roth’s paintings come to life, but provides the artist an opportunity to fully integrate form and function.

TwinTable is a minimalist end table created by joining two identical laser-cut steel units with nine simple bolts. Connecting flanges on the underside give this table its strength, allowing it to be quite stable yet elegantly thin.

Max Bill was the first director of the Ulm Design Stool which was the successor to the Bauhaus in postwar Germany. With his colleague Hans Gugelot, Bill designed this stool for use in the school and it was made by the students in wood shop. It is both light and robust and very multi-functional. It can be used as a stool, end table, side table, put side-by-side for a coffee table, or stacked as bookshelves.

"Beauty of function" and "beauty as function" were two important themes to Max Bill (1908-1994), especially evident in this collection of furniture characterized by clarity of design, simplicity, logic and economical use of materials. Max Bill studied at the Bauhaus in 1927-28 under the tutelage of Albers, Moholy-Nagy, Klee and Kandinsky. His interest in industrial design grew with the economic boom after the war, and in the importance of the appearance of things, an influence which came from the impressive talent from America. This collection is produced by WB Form, the distributor arm of the furniture store Wohnbedarf for which Max Bill designed most of these pieces. Made in Germany and Switzerland.