For 40 years, the galerie ulrich fiedler has been showing important historic masterpieces from the first half of the 20th century, which were milestones in history of design and are icons for the movement we call today modern.

In the exhibition at Le Minotaure in Paris, important furniture and objects from the Bauhausmasters, furniture by Charlotte Perriand and Gerrit Thomas Rietveld are combined with work by Jean Arp, Dexel, Kandinsky, Kupka, Leger and Moholy Nagy from the collection of Minotaure gallery.

All of these works, which arose from the revolutionary impetus of this period, form an ensemble of original design objects and works of art created during the same time and complement each other perfectly.

One of the highlights of the exhibition will be a preproduction example of Charlotte Perriands swivel chair “Siège pivotant” made by the by the metalsmith Jacques Labadie in Paris in 1928 in a small serie of 20 examples. This Chair was shown in several Museums Exhibitions, Bröhan Museum, Berlin, April 2016 – Sept. 2016, Museum of Western Art, Tokyo ‚ Dec 2018- March 2019 and most recent at the Fondation Louis Vuitton, Paris  Charlotte Perriand,  2019/20. Anne Bony has chosen it for the title image of her new book about Charlotte Perriand.

A rare ‚Beugel‘ Highback Chair was made by Gerrit Thomas Rietveld for the painter and poet Gabriel Smit in 1927. The move to use metal tube and bent plywood for his designs was an important moment in the career of Gerrit Thomas Rietveld as a cabinetmaker, as in the same year, when Marcel Breuer and Mies van der Rohe showed their Tubular Steel Furniture at the Weissenhof-Settlement in Stuttgart

Next to his famous steel furniture, Mies van der Rohe designed wooden furniture for most of his major pre-war commissions. He veneered those tables, desks, and chairs in tropical timbers like jacaranda and palisander. The present desk with three drawers, comprises a pinewood core veneered in Macassar Ebony (also known as coromandel or its variant calamander), which has a strong graphic line effect. Our example, which was made for an unknown commissioner, is the smallest version of this desk, which were manufactured since 1927 several times, but in different sizes. The design is identical to eight three-drawer desks he made for himself and for Lilly Reich, in the Weißenhof Settlement, and for those in the Tugendhat House, the Lange House, the Hess Apartment, the Crous Apartment, and the Lohan Apartment, all built between 1927 and his emigration from Germany in 1937.

The famous Bauhaus Chess Set was designed in the Workshop for Sculpture at the Bauhaus Weimar. This version comes from the e state of Dr. Baender, US citizen, who acquired the set directly from the Bauhaus in Weimar as a student.

32 chessmen in cherrywood, partly stained, together with ebonised oak, walnut and bird’s eye maple veneered games box, with metal plaque inside box impressed Hartwig Weimar/Bauhaus Ges. Gesch. with a combined backgammon and chess board. This chess-set was part of the exhibition: „von Arts and Crafts zum bauhaus. Kunst und Design – eine neueEinheit“ Bröhan Museum Berlin January – May 2019 and –Hofmobiliendepot , SchönbrunnCastle, Vienna, June – Dec. 2020