American furniture producer Knoll has commissioned photographer Adam Jason Cohen to shoot its re-editioned black, white, and archival dark red Bauhaus-era collections at significant locations throughout Los Angeles.
The revised products include the MR Chair and Table by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe; the Wassily Chair, Cesca Chairs, and the Laccio Table by Marcel Breuer.
According to Knoll, the colours were chosen to closely reflect the historic art and design school's visual identity. It is the first time the furniture pieces were produced in an ultra-matte finish.
Knoll has issued a set of colourful Bauhaus-era furniture
"In the early years of the Bauhaus, Mies van der Rohe had painted his chair frames in white and a deep red," said Knoll senior vice president of design Jonathan Olivares. "After seven decades of Knol's Bauhaus classics being produced exclusively in chrome, seeing the pieces painted is like seeing them for the first time again"
According to Knoll, locations including USC School of Architecture's Edward Killingsworth-designed Watt Hall were selected as backdrops for Jason Cohen's photo shoots because they provided a contemporary yet historically referential reframing of the products.
Classic chairs were produced in an ultra-matte finish for the first time
"The locations are abstracted urban environments made of concrete, tubular steel, and glass ? the industrial materials emphasised in Bauhaus architecture," said Knoll director of ...