mensa

Design from the 1920s

This stacking runner chair, model no. 410, is based on the Arnold model 3036, which was created during the period of the close cooperation between Marcel Breuer and L.&C. Arnold. Significantly, the mensa chair 410 is also a further development of the popular model 409, which was modified by designer Rainer Zahrend of Bauhaus in co-operation with Uve Jacubke of Arnold Stendal in 1984/85 for Bauhaus in Dessau.

Over 1000 runner chairs remain in use there today, including in the Gropius room, the Bauhaus workshop, the Preller-Haus and in the offices. They are also much used in the Bauhaus Aula for special events and panel discussions.

Details
Variants
Colours

Frame
Runner frame 2 leg bars in round tube 22 x 1.5 mm, welded to 2 cross braces in flat steel 25 x 5 mm.

Surface
Chrome (20 micron bright nickel + 5 micron chrome), powder coating to RAL chart (80 micron)

Seat + backrest
Ergonomically shaped beech laminate, plywood thickness backrest 16 mm, 14- ply glued, plywood thickness seat 8 mm, 7-ply glued Finished in an environmentally friendly polyurethane-based lacquer, which retains the natural structure of the wood. Natural or black stained beech.

Upholstery
In fabric group 1, 2, 3 and leather

Features
White plastic glides for hard floors
Slot-in linkage
Stacking trolley for approx. 10 chairs