Terms and conditions of use
Dining room suite
designed (c. 1926); manufactured (c. 1927-1928)
Medium
Oak (Quercus sp.), painted wood, glass, rush
Measurements
Dining suite [2 arm chairs (73 × 62 × 52.5 cm) and 2 side chairs (82.3 × 44.5 × 40.5 cm) and circular table (76 × 108.5 × 110 cm); sideboard (90 × 184.5 × 50 cm)]
Credit Line
National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Purchased with funds donated by Peter and Ivanka Canet, 2016
Gallery location
Not on display
About this work
Erich Dieckmann made a significant contribution as a designer at the Bauhaus school with his pioneering ideas on modular furniture construction. Primarily known for his furniture, Dieckmann designed entire ensembles of dining and living room furniture characterised by stringent geometric forms. His use of standardised forms and readily available materials such as wood and rushing facilitated serial production and kept prices affordable. This sideboard is part of a dining-room suite that is one of the few complete surviving sets of furniture from Dieckmann’s early application of these design ideas. The bright orange-red colour scheme also recalls colour theories taught at the Bauhaus.