Bamberg Metallwerkstätten

Germany

Corporation

Produzent

The company was founded in 1931 on the site of the Joseph Müller metal workshop in Berlin-Neukölln, Germany, by its former managing director, Adolf Bamberg. Bamberg Metallwerkstätten took over all Joseph Müller’s metal furniture models designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich. Under the series abbreviations MR and LR, the initials of the respective designers, the workshops produced not only tubular steel furniture like the cantilevered MR 10 (1927) and MR 30 (1931), but also models made of flat steel such as the MR 50 (1930) or MR 80 (1929). Only a year later, production rights for these designs by Reich and van der Rohe were completely transferred to the company Gebrüder Thonet, and the Bamberg Metallwerkstätten ceased production. During a transitional period in the 1930s, Estler, located in Berlin-Charlottenburg, produced the furniture designs by Mies van der Rohe. Màčel, Otakar, 2100 Metal Tubular Chairs. A Typology (Rotterdam: Van Hezik-Fonds 90 Publishers, 2006). Màčel, Otakar, ‘The Metal Furniture by Mies van der Rohe: Manufacturers and Imitations 1927–38’, in Reuter, Helmut, and Birgit Schulte, eds, Mies and Modern Living. Interiors, Furniture, Photography (Ostfildern: Hatje Cantz, 2008). Vegesack, Alexander von, Deutsche Stahlrohrmöbel. 650 Modell aus Katalogen von 1927–1958 (Munich: Bangert Verlag, 1986).