Weill Bruno, Thonet, fa

Bauhaus secretary model B-290

company metal plate Thonet, Germany, production fa Gebrüder Thonet AG, Frankenberg on Eder, design by B. Weil, execution by fa Thonet around 1932, chromed base metal, lacquered wood (later lacquer), dimensions 150 × 170 × 50 cm
Lit: Thonet Stahlrohr-Mobel/ Tubular Steel Furniture Card Catalogue, von Vegasack Alexander, Vitra Design Museum, 1989. Bruno Weill as director of Thonet Fr res in Paris introduces furniture production of tubular steel with designs by Le Corbusier, Charlotte Perriand, R. C. Coquery (Coqueri), André Lurçat and other important designers. Under the pseudonym Béwé designs tubular steel furniture for Thonet. In 1940 he goes to the United States to work for Thonet Brothers. Rare Bauhaus B-290 secretary by designer Bruno Weill for Thonet circa 1932 is one of the unique and rarely seen within functionalist design furniture.