TECTA F42E Wicker Chaise longue

In 1931, Mies van der Rohe applied for a patent for a "multifunctional resting furniture".‎ It was to be ergonomic as well as elegant, free-swinging and suspended, usable both indoors and outdoors.‎ To this day, the suspended lounger F42E condenses the moment of floating in a piece of furniture that looks like a flapping wing and spreads functionality, aesthetics and restraint in rooms as a silhouette, while its counterpart, the adjustable F42E1, equipped with the same reclining surface, quotes the swinging of the cantilever chair with its cantilever frame.‎ The couches were designed by Mies van der Rohe for an ensemble of villas in Krefeld.‎ Known today as museums, Haus Lange and Haus Esters, which are located in the immediate vicinity on Krefeld's Wilhelmshofer Allee, were commissioned by the founders of the Vereinigte Seidenwebereien Hermann Lange and Josef Esters and were intended as private residences for their families.‎ The Bauhaus Archive in Berlin only approves true-to-work and licensed reeditions of the original Bauhaus models.‎ These are marked with Oskar Schlemmer’s signet, which he designed for the Weimar State Bauhaus in 1922.‎ Even today, Tecta's Bauhaus models are based exactly on the proportions of the originals.‎