112 - Bauhaus - Bauhaus Wallpapers. Sample Book and Original Wallpaper.

Bauhaus - Bauhaus Wallpapers. Sample Book and Original Wallpaper. Auction Start Time: approx. 1:04 p.m. (Schedule subject to change) I. Bauhaus Wallpapers 1952–53. Sample book from the Oscar Schmidt wallpaper company, Hildesheim. Includes 37 Bauhaus wallpaper sample sheets and 23 Rasch small-pattern wallpapers. The Bauhaus section features several backdrop sheets with interior design views. Original half-linen binding with screw fasteners. - Also included: I. Bauhaus wallpaper. Original sample, without the usual pattern stamp on the reverse side; “Bauhaus” printed on the side margin. Slightly water-stained at the edges; inscribed at the bottom: “our contribution to the next B + C Miller auction” (?). - II. Roll of wallpaper (approx. 250 × 56 cm). Inscribed on the edge with “® Rasch Product b 79 [or 679].” - Included: Clothes make the man—the wall is the room’s dress. Advertising brochure from the Schwinn & Starck wallpaper store in Frankfurt with illustrative examples and five enclosed sample sheets of Salubra wallpaper. - Included: Rasch Artist Wallpaper Bremen 5. - The Bauhaus wallpapers were created as a result of a competition organized in 1929 by the Hanover-based wallpaper manufacturer Rasch, in which Bauhaus student Margaret Camilla Leiteritz (1907–1976) won one-third of all the prizes awarded. The “Bauhaus wallpapers” became a bestseller for Rasch for decades and are still manufactured and distributed by the company today.