↫ ↬
Desk with light, 1925–35
Designed by Camillo Cerri (Swiss, d. 1980)
Made by August Tobler (Swiss, 1899–1975)
Dornach, Switzerland
Plywood, metal hardware, and glass
The Wolfsonian–FIU, The Mitchell Wolfson, Jr. Collection, TD1992.67.1
This desk was advertised as “furniture stimulated by the art fostered at the Goetheanum”—the building erected in homage to poet-philosopher Goethe at Rudolph Steiner’s Anthroposophical community in Switzerland. The group believed that the spiritual world could be revealed by the sensitive study of the material world. Steiner, convinced that symbolic expressions would lead to heightened spiritual awareness, tried to express in architecture Goethe’s “Ideas of Metamorphosis”—that is, the natural order in which organic structures evolve. The desk’s faceted form is based on the crystal—living matter that symbolized purity, harmony, and transformation.
Ivana Rodriguez
Curatorial & Exhibitions Assistant
The Wolfsonian - FIU
https://www.wolfsonian.org/
36
39
18
(Source: thesteward, via oxblood)
(Source: inspiredbymuses)
