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Egon Eiermann


Egon Eiermann (* 29.09.1904 in Berlin/Germany; † 19.07.1970 in Baden-Baden/Germany) studied architecture in Berlin before joining the staff at Karstadt AG. In 1931 he established together with Fritz Jahnecke his on Architecture Bureau. In 1947 Eiermann was appointed as Lecturer at the Technical College in Karlsruhe, and in 1951 was co-founder of the German Design council. In addition to architecture Eiermann was also worked as stage designer for numerous film and theatre productions and designed furniture. In 1953 Eiermann designed himself an iconic desk.


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Der Stuhl des Architekten – Sitzmöbel von Egon Eiermann @ the Ungers Archiv für Architekturwissenschaft Cologne

...One of Germany's leading post-war architects and architectural theoreticians, Egon Eiermann was also one of post-war Europe's most important chair designers, not just in context of what he realised, but also in context of what he worked towards realising and the reasons why... Although Egon Eiermann's career as a designer of industrially, mass produced, chairs begins in the late 1940, his association with furniture design does back to his student days in Berlin in the 1920s, studies which stood very much in context of the idea of the architectural Gesamtkunstwerk, of there being no separation of interior and exterior, between situation, facade, furnishings...

5 New Architecture & Design Exhibitions for January 2018

..."Der Stuhl des Architekten – Sitzmöbel von Egon Eiermann" at Ungers Archiv für Architekturwissenschaft, Cologne, Germany Among the many characters who feature in these pages we never got the chance to meet, the German architect Egon Eiermann would always feature in our Top 5...

smow Blog Interview: Thomas Gerber, CEO Wilde+Spieth - A good chair is an important part of ensuring professional orchestra musicians remain fit and enjoy themselves

...Originally a manufacturer of window shutters, in 1948 the German architect and designer Egon Eiermann commissioned Wilde+Spieth to construct custom blinds for one of his architectural projects, before, and admittedly somewhat overly casually enquiring, "Kinderchen, can you also build chairs?... They could, they did and Egon Eiermann subsequently went on to design a collection of some 30 chairs for Wilde+Spieth, including works such as the SE 18, SE 42 or SE 68...

The Sedentary Workers: Orchestra Musicians

...The Designer's Musician's Chair One of the first to critically consider the musician's chair was the German architect and designer Egon Eiermann... Chairs initially developed in cooperation with Egon Eiermann, subsequently independently of Eiermann, but always in cooperation with musicians...

On Egon Eiermann and the maintenance of his legacy......

...In the context of another project we are currently researching various aspects of Egon Eiermann's architectural output... In Stuttgart Egon Eiermann's IBM Campus is under threat of demolition...


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