Values & tradition
Never before has tradition been as valuable as it is today. Tecta stands for the Bauhaus movement - but with a forward-looking approach. Lauenförde is located on the undulating banks of the Weser. For more than 40 years, avant-garde designers have been flocking to this village of 3,000 inhabitants. These include the British architects Peter & Alison Smithson, the architect of Mies van der Rohe, Sergius Ruegenberg, Jean Prouvé, Stefan Wewerka and the great Bauhaus thinkers such as the Gropius family.
Construction & poetry
The name Tecta evokes technology and, more generally, the Greek concept of techne: things designed, enabled and created by man, offering both physical and spiritual benefits. The company produces essential modern design, but it is much more than a manufacturer: it discovers, invents, explains, mediates, excites and brings materials to life. Its products show that modernism did not begin with Art Nouveau, but much earlier, in the Prussian classicism of Karl Friedrich Schinkel, whose cast-iron garden chair influenced the structure of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona chair. Schinkel's creation reveals the hidden reason and poetry of design: it is an event in its own right rather than part of a continuum, a reflection of a historical truth. As Nikolaus Pevsner has pointed out, the pioneers of modern design were active around 1800, building open-air warehouses with curtain walls. Then came the cantilevered structures of Schinkel's outdoor furniture, which opened up space rather than closing it in, and thus made a crucial and often forgotten contribution to modernism.
100% Made in Germany
Tecta furniture is 100% Made in Germany. Take the example of our cantilever chair model B25: the wickerwork is hand-woven by artisanal weavers in our Lauenförde workshop. The employees take pride in their work, and each chair bears the personal imprint of its weaver on its frame. The polypropylene fibers used in its manufacture are made exclusively for Tecta in the Sauerland region of North Rhine-Westphalia. The tubular steel that forms its frame is premium quality steel from the German Rhineland. The chair's precision-made frame is shaped, polished and finished by hand by partners in Upper Franconia. The traditions of craftsmanship have continued to flourish at Tecta to this day. This commitment to the highest quality craftsmanship allows Tecta to manufacture the works of Marcel Breuer, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich in all their glory, right down to the sophisticated double-weave wickerwork that sets these Bauhaus originals apart from their peers.
