The Grassimesse smow-Designpreis - Don't miss out like Reich, Wagenfeld, László, Brandt et al
...Mart Stam: While we can't confirm that Mart Stam ever presented at the Grassimesse, we do know that in 1931 Deutsche Stahlmöbel a... Established by Anton Lorenz in 1929, in the middle of that out of control period when Lorenz, Stam, Breuer, Thonet and a great many others, were, more or less simultaneously, suing one another while cooperating with one another in the battle to achieve primacy in the steel tube cantilever market — wild, wild, times — DESTA carried a portfolio of steel tube works by the likes of, for example, Hans Luckhardt, Erich Mendelsohn, Anton Lorenz and in the form of the ST 12 cantilever from 1929, that work which, in effect, led to Mart Stam being awarded the artistic copyright to the quadratic, cubic, cantilever, possibly Stam...