TECTA K40 Round glass and steel central coffee table

The K40 table is the squaring of the circle, and quite literally.‎ The round crystal glass top rests on a curved steel tube, which in turn horizontally braces a square frame.‎ There is no simpler way to construct a table - and it could hardly be more convincing.‎ The rounded corners of the horizontal supports reappear as fine steel loops of the runners.‎ Breuer designed the striking table in 1927/28 for the Berlin theatre director Erwin Piscator, specifically for his private flat.‎ So it was not only on stage that the theatre director was committed to radical modernism, with authors such as Bertolt Brecht, Egon Erwin Kisch, Heinrich Mann and Erich Mühsam as well as stage designers such as Georg Grosz, John Heartfield and László Moholy-Nagy.‎ In his private life, too, Piscator went new ways, away from the heavy furniture of the past and towards a light, airy atmosphere.‎ The K40 coffee table fitted perfectly into this programme.‎ 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.‎