Inkombi sideboard, Wohnbedarf model 122, Basel, Switzerland | Designed and manufactured from 1933 onwards
Plywood panels (blockboard), birch veneer, protected by matting
This sideboard belongs to a series of functional furniture named in-kombimöbel, which were avertised in 1933 by Zurich's Wohnbedarf AG for its versatile combinability, construction and durability. Moholy-Nagy invented the name of in-kombimöbel. (...) a genuine plywood construction that does not deny itself externally (...), the wood stands in the room as it grows in the forest, and is not covered over with stain or paint, (...) Bayer, H.: Katalog der Wohnbedarf-Möbel, 1933, aus: Schweizer Typenmöbel 1925 - 1935, S. 131.
Literature: Designsammlung des Museums für Gestaltung, e Museum, Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, 2020
Mehlau-Wiebking, F., Rüegg, A., Tropeano, R., Schweizer Typenmöbel 1925 - 1935, Sigfried Giedion und die Wohnbedarf AG, gta Verlag, Zürich, 1989, 136
