VITRA Nesting Tables

Josef Albers was mainly involved in furniture design during his time at the Bauhaus in Weimar, where, for a short time, he was also artistic director of the furniture workshop. As both a teacher and an artist, Albers played a seminal role for a whole generation of American artists and exerted an important influence on Op-Art, Kinetic Art, Color Field Painting and New Abstraction. He was the recipient of fourteen honorary doctorates and in 1968 was awarded the Grand Cross of Merit of the order “Pour le Mérite”. Vitra Design Museum has re-issued his Nesting Tables - originally created for the so-called Moellenhof House in Berlin: they combine clear geometrical shapes with use of color derived from Albers' painterly oeuvre. On the under side, the glass table tops are lacquered turquoise, yellow, red, or blue. Material: Frame solid oak, table tops lacquered acrylic glass.