Lot 22: Rare chess set, model XVI

Rare chess set, model XVI

Box: 2 1/8 x 5 1/8 x 5 1/8 in. (5.4 x 13 x 13 cm); chess board: 17 x 17 x 1/2 in. (43 x 43 x 0.3 cm)

Cardboard, leather, maple. Produced by Bauhaus Dessau, Germany. Comprising chess board, original box and 32 chess pieces (34).

1924.0

The Bauhaus Chess Set by Josef Hartwig,"" Bauhaus Archiv Museum for Design, Berlin, 2006"

Bauhaus-Archiv, Experiment Bauhaus, Berlin, 1988, pp. 400-401 for a similar example; Magdalena Droste and Bauhaus Archiv, Bauhaus: 1919-1933, Cologne, 1993, p. 94 for a similar example; Magdalena Droste and Peter Hahn, et al., eds., Bauhaus Archive Berlin The collection, Berlin, 1999, p. 90 for a similar example; Jeannine Fiedler and Peter Feierabend, Bauhaus, Cologne, 2000, p. 633 for a similar example; Anne Bobzin and Klaus Weber, The Bauhaus Chess Set by Josef Hartwig, exh. cat., The Bauhaus Archiv Museum of Design, Berlin, 2006, illustrated pp. 21-23

The original Bauhaus chess sets contained chess boards which were plain, litho-printed cardboard bonded onto stronger cardboard to create a simple, flat playing surface. This folding chess board is rare due to the burgundy leather border and is the only known example of its kind.