"Sintrax" Coffeepot

Designer Gerhard Marcks German
 Designer Wilhelm Wagenfeld German
 Manufacturer Jenaer Glaswerk Schott & Gen., Jena German

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Marcks, one of the first masters appointed to be artistic director of the ceramics workshop at the Bauhaus (1919–25), and Wagenfeld, a student at the Bauhaus (1923–25), collaborated on this coffeepot, which promotes the Bauhaus philosophy of rational design for industry using the principles of functional efficiency and geometrical form.

"Sintrax" Coffeepot, Gerhard Marcks (German, Berlin 1889–1981 Burgbrohl), Glass, rubber, wood, and metal

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