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Nietzsche Privat, Neues Museum Weimar. Part of the Klassik Stiftung Weimar's Theme Year 2023: Wohnen
Architecture | 19.09.2023

Klassik Stiftung Weimar Theme Year 2023: Wohnen

In context of the 1923 Bauhaus exhibition in Weimar, that first wide-ranging presentation of the school, its work and its understandings of itself and the world in which it existed, the institute presented with the Haus am Horn by Georg Muche and its interior, furniture, fittings and accessories by the likes of, and amongst others, Erich Dieckmann, Alma Buscher, Otto Lindig, Benita Otte or Marcel Breuer, a synopsis of the prevailing understandings of and positions to domestic arrangements and

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A chair "just high enough that one can sit half-standing" as depicted in Journal der Moden, May 1786 (Image via Thüringer Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek Jena cc0)
Designer | 06.09.2022

#officetour Milestones – A chair "just high enough that one can sit half-standing"

"For men who have to write a lot, and over prolonged periods, a desk at which they can work standing up is an indispensable piece of furniture for altering their posture and for maintaining their health", opined Journal der Moden in May 1786. An age when, famously, only men wrote. Yet advantageous and positive as standing to write was, prolonged standing could, as Journal der Moden notes, lead to tiredness. A solution was however at hand for all who preferred working at a standing height desk

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