Tecta

TECTA Bruchhäuser & Drescher KG
legal form	KG
founding	1956
Seat	Lauenförde , Germany
management	Axel Bruchhäuser Christian Drescher
Number of employees	approx 35
Branch	Furniture industry
Website	www.tecta.de

View of the company building

The TECTA Bruchhäuser & Drescher KG is a furniture manufacturer based in Lauenförde in Lower Saxony . The company is primarily known for its Bauhaus re- editions and their further developments, such as the cantilever chair .

description

The company name is derived from the Latin (tectere) and means to design and execute . The medium-sized company produces exclusively in Lauenförde. There are 40 employees in their own carpentry , locksmithing , upholstery and braiding shop .

Many furniture that of the international avant-garde were designed in the 1920s, such as the Fagus Factory armchair by Walter Gropius and Marcel Breuer's glass case are, of TECTA first time in series production. The company fulfills a similar function as the Italian furniture manufacturer Cassina and Knoll International in the USA.

Of the 100 products from 30 TECTA carry the Bauhaus - Signet - after that of Oskar Schlemmer in 1922 at the Bauhaus Weimar designed Bauhaus characters. They are faithfully manufactured and under license as re-editions of the Bauhaus models and are approved by the Bauhaus archive in Berlin.

In collaboration with various architects and artists such as Sergius Ruegenberg , Jean Prouvé , Alison & Peter Smithson , Stefan Wewerka and Al Hansen, the company seeks to find contemporary forms for Bauhaus principles. An example of this is the cantilever chair. On the one hand, the company produces as a re-edition Bauhaus originals of the cantilever chair by Marcel Breuer and Mies van der Rohe , at the same time TECTA realized further developments under its own name, such as the cantilever chair B25 . In addition, which arose in the 1980s in close cooperation with Stefan Wewerka Einschwinger , bent from a single steel pipe, the one-legged drives the reduction of Kragstühle to the extreme.

history

The company was founded in 1956 by the architect Hans Könecke in Lauenförde. In 1972 it was taken over by Werner Bruchhäuser and his son Axel Bruchhäuser, who had left the GDR in the same year . There, both had in Güstrow a furniture company, which in 1972 forced into a state-owned enterprise was transformed.

Pavilion on the company premises, design by Stefan Wewerka

Between 1990 and 2003, architects Alison and Peter Smithson expanded and redesigned the company premises into a landscape park called TECTA Landscape. Inside is a pavilion built in 1985 by the architect Stefan Wewerka , another version of which was created in 1987 for documenta 8 in Kassel .

TECTA was headed by Werner and Axel Bruchhäuser until 2001. After Werner Bruchhäuser left the company in 2001, his grandson Christian Drescher joined the management of the family business. He has been managing the company as a liable partner since 2016 , while Axel Bruchhäuser continues to shape the company as a partner.

In 1982 Axel Bruchhäuser founded the Beverungen Castle Chair Museum . In 2004 the chair museum in Beverungen moved to the new cantilever chair museum designed by Peter Smithson in the vicinity of the TECTA company premises in Lauenförde.

Designer

• Erich Brendel
• Marcel Breuer
• Walter Gropius
• Al Hansen
• Peter Keler
• El Lissitzky
• Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
• Gerrit Rietveld
• Sergius Ruegenberg
• Stefan Wewerka

literature

• Stefan Wewerka: 1972-1982 report of a German company . Alexander Verlag, Berlin 1983, ISBN 3-923854-01-3
• Axel Bruchhäuser and Stuhlmuseum Burg Beverungen (ed.) For the TECTA general catalog: About chairs and tables . Alexander Verlag, Berlin 1987, ISBN 3-923854-39-0
• Peter Smithson and Karl Unglaub: Flying Furniture . Verlag Walther König, Cologne 2000. ISBN 3-88375-405-6
• Axel Bruchhäuser and Chair Museum Burg Beverungen (ed.): The cantilever chair . Walther König publishing house, Cologne 1983/99. ISBN 3-88375-351-3
• Karl Unglaub: Cantilever Tables . Walter König Verlag, Cologne 2005. ISBN 388375692X
• TECTA Bruchhäuser & Drescher OHG: TECTA - Flying Furniture . Verlag Walter König, Cologne 2013. ISBN 978-3-86335-493-0
• History of a German company. Tecta Axel + Werner Bruchhäuser KG as a special print from: Güstrow im Umbruch , ed. Angelika Schmiegelow Powell, Edition Temmen , Bremen, 2003

Web links

Commons : TECTA  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Company website

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Christine Longère: Star of the week for the dream of floating in Neue Westfälische from December 7, 2014

Coordinates: 51 ° 39 ′ 52.5 ″  N , 9 ° 23 ′ 24.3 ″  E