Sascha Lange - "Möbel aus der Zukunft"

In the organizer's words:

"Furniture from the future - a German-German story"

Sascha Lange presents the comprehensive book "Furniture from the Future". An entertaining and richly illustrated journey through German-German design and economic history from the early 1970s.
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When the so-called Space Age began in the middle of the 20th century and the conquest of space took on unimagined proportions, people in both East and West believed that soon everyone would be able to fly into space and have breakfast on the moon. The joy of experimentation and the innovative spirit of the 60s and 70s influenced many areas of everyday life, above all through the triumphant advance of various plastics. This revolutionized furniture design - in the Federal Republic and in the GDR. What's more, the otherwise cordially hostile countries cooperated in this field and redefined modern living culture - each in its own way. The fact that chairs and tables made of polyurethane plastic developed by West German designers became classics in the East is one of the curious aspects of this period.

Historian and author Sascha Lange has traced the history of the kangaroo chair, garden egg and many other pieces of plastic furniture in both German states. The result is an exciting, entertaining and richly illustrated book that reveals design history and German-German convergences between the market and planned economy in the early 1970s - in the middle of the Space Age.

The book "Möbel aus der Zukunft - eine deutsch-deutsche Geschichte" was published in mid-March by Ch. Links Verlag.

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