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Three B3 'Wassily' club chairs by Marcel Breuer. Or are they? , As seen in context of Mehr als echt (More than real) by Jun Yang, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau
Bauhaus | 08.12.2024

Mehr als echt (More than real) by Jun Yang at Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau

In his ca. 75 CE work The Life of Theseus, the Greek biographer, historian and Delphi priest Plutarch notes that the ship with which Theseus returned to Attica having slain the Minotaur in its labyrinth on Crete, "was preserved by the Athenians down even to the time of Demetrius Phalereus, for they took away the old planks as they decayed, putting in new and stronger timber in their place", meaning that over time the ship of Theseus "became a standing example among the philosophers, for the

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