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Hermann Muthesius und der Deutsche WerkBund: Modern Design in Deutschland 1900-1927, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, November2,– December 23, 2002;The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, January 18–March 9, 2003, no. 221.
Wilhelm Wagenfeld used materials from a hardware store to construct an elegant vision of modernity. Held aloft by curvilinear tubing, the white glass globe seems suspended in space. Wagenfeld was a leading designer for the Bauhaus, a school for design, architecture, and applied arts in the early 1900s in Germany that advocated for creating useful objects made for modern living. As a teacher, he instructed students to create functional, simple, inexpensive, and beautiful works.
With Galerie Historismus, Paris by 2007;
Purchased from the Galerie Historismus by The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO 2007.
Vom Sofakissen zum Städtebau. Hermann Muthesius und der Deutsche WerkBund: Modern Design in Deutschland 1900-1927, exh. cat. (Berlin: Werkbund-Archiv, Museum der Dinge, 2002), 329 (repro.).
