Frankfurt Bauhaus Telephone 1925
T n frankfurt bauhaus telephone in excellent condition working and includes original cords.
Frankfurt bauhaus telephone 1925. This execution is illustrated in the frankfurter register frankfurt registry. Hungarian telephone factory 1937. Although designed along the principles of bauhaus purist do not consider the frankfurt as bauhaus as its design did not originate from the bauhaus itself. It was drafted for the homes project new frankfurt 1925 1930.
The frankfurt bauhaus telephone was made by the fuld co. Gropius s design for the dessau facilities was a return to the futuristic gropius of 1914 that had more in common with the international style lines of the fagus factory than the stripped down neo classical of the werkbund pavilion or the völkisch. It was also the name of the accompanying magazine that was published from 1926 to 1931 dedicated to international trends in architecture art housing and education. Original art deco telephone rare 1934 h.
New frankfurt german neues frankfurt was an affordable public housing program in frankfurt started in 1925 and completed in 1930. First phone for cars. Rotary telephone the frankfurt bauhaus is created. Sometimes it is called the bauhaus telephone suggesting there was only one bauhaus model.
Heemaf model phone heemaf model 1955 was a standard analogue telephone developed and manufactured by the heemaf machine factory in netherlands for the dutch state 1960. The frankfurt bauhaus telephone was made by the fuld co. Has the rarer earlier kugel or ball shaped transmitter cap and also includes a t n tag in the back of the base. The bauhaus moved to dessau in 1925 and new facilities there were inaugurated in late 1926.
Gift of jo carole and ronald s. Hungarian telephone factory 1937. Frankfurt bauhaus telephone 1925. There is however another design attributed to the bauhaus movement.
The telephone was designed and manufactured for the new frankfurt housing program low cost housing intended to relieve the post world war 1 housing shortage. 5 1 8 x 4 5 16 x 6 1 8 13 x 11 x 15 5 cm. Frankfurt bauhaus telephone 1925. Bakelite nickel plated sheet brass and paint.
The mix genest klimax. The german werkbund and the bauhaus were involved in this project and the phone is therefore often called the bauhaus phone.