Der Stuhl des Architekten – Sitzmöbel von Egon Eiermann @ the Ungers Archiv für Architekturwissenschaft Cologne
...One of Germany's leading post-war architects and architectural theoreticians, Egon Eiermann was also one of post-war Europe's most important chair designers, not just in context of what he realised, but also in context of what he worked towards realising and the reasons why... Although Egon Eiermann's career as a designer of industrially, mass produced, chairs begins in the late 1940, his association with furniture design does back to his student days in Berlin in the 1920s, studies which stood very much in context of the idea of the architectural Gesamtkunstwerk, of there being no separation of interior and exterior, between situation, facade, furnishings...