As previously noted the Werkbund Berlin Galerie is currently hosting an exhibition devoted to the ess.tee.tisch t-6500 from Swiss manufacturer Horgenglarus. Originally designed in 1951 by Jürg Bally the ess.tee.tisch is a height adjustable table operated by an ingeniously simple mechanism and a product that was awarded a Gute Form Award by the Swiss Werkbund in 1955 for its combination of practicality, functionality and aesthetic charm. The exhibition in Berlin presents an updated version of
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"It helps you save a considerable amount space, then it is a dinning table and a tea table in one. With a single hand movement you can set its height as you choose; and that without needing to first clear the table" So introduced Swiss furniture manufacturer Horgenglarus the so called Bally-Verstelltisch, or S.T. Tisch, on its launch in 1954. Designed by the Swiss architect Jürg Bally the S.T. Tisch is one of those products that without question would have found its way into our Lost
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As we noted in our review of the book "WEGNER – Just one good chair", Hans J. Wegner spent a large proportion of his career seeking to perfect and improve his chair designs. "If only you could design just one good chair in your life . . .", he mused in 1952, "But you simply cannot" Similarly for Egon Eiermann the "Chair of his Life" was always the next chair design. While Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was famously of the opinion that designing a chair was more complicated than building a
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