Cradle Cradle
Designer : Peter KelerCollection : Bauhaus
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Peter Keler's cradle design dates from the early days of the Bauhaus, from 1922. A work of blue circle, yellow triangle and red rectangle, it makes tangible the influence that the synaesthetic colour theory of teacher Wassily Kandinsky had on Peter Keler. At the same time, it embodied the first idea of a floating, swinging and rolling object that became a symbol for the Bauhaus.
Originally, it was part of a furniture competition based on Walter Gropius' brief for a bed design for a man, woman and infant. The man's bed had rectangular head and foot sections, the woman's bed drew a soft semicircle. The child's cradle complemented the two geometric shapes with the triangle.
Axel Bruchhäuser had the very first contact with Peter Keler and his cradle in 1975, when he asked to be allowed to produce the cradle. Together with Peter Keler, Tecta produced the reedition of the famous Bauhaus cradle based on Wassily Kandinsky's idea, true to the original, but industrially.
Today, the cradle is considered an icon. Peter Keler himself described it as a work that "became a symbol of the Bauhaus." Keler, who studied painting, colour design and carpentry at the Weimar Bauhaus, uses it to refer to the formal language and the guiding principle of the Bauhaus: the revival of arts and crafts and the dissolution of the distinction between artist and craftsman.
The Bauhaus Archive in Berlin only approves true-to-work and licensed reeditions of the original Bauhaus models. These are marked with Oskar Schlemmer’s signet, which he designed for the Weimar State Bauhaus in 1922. Even today, Tecta's Bauhaus models are based exactly on the proportions of the originals.
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