In 1927 the Rasch brothers designed the furniture for the apartment for a bachelor (no. 18) in Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s model house at the Weißenhofsiedlung Stuttgart. There, they arranged their Sitzgeiststühle around a round table with five legs, whose pyramidal frame rests on a cross-shaped base. The table shown here takes the same idea a step further and shows Heinz Rasch dispensing with the pyramidal frame altogether. Instead, the legs are angled off at both ends and cross in the middle for additional stability. In their book 'Der Stuhl', published in 1928, the Rasch brothers attributed the sturdiness of this design to the use of diagonals that were connected in the middle to create a three-dimensional hourglass shape. Similar table designs were later adopted by designers such as Hans Bellmann in 1944, and Carlo Bartoli’s Nodo table of 1970 is a good example. Tecta reissued the table in a version made of tubular steel that was produced from c. 1985 to 1996.
Text: Otakar Máčel
