--- title: "TECTA" url: "https://www.stylepark.com/en/manufacturer/tecta" language: "en" type: "manufacturer" description: "Individual designer items from TECTA ✓ Wide range of products & designs ➜ Get inspired now" published: "2004-07-20T00:00:00+02:00" modified: "2022-07-14T16:48:55+02:00" image: "https://www.stylepark.com/apple-touch-icon.png" --- # TECTA ![](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/articles/TECTA_Logo.png) Philosophy Tecta Bruchhäuser & Drescher OHG is a furniture manufacturing company based in Lauenförde, Germany. Our product line consists of Bauhaus re-editions, such as the iconic cantilever chair, and derivative designs. Tecta was founded in 1956 by the architect Hans Könecke. The company name comes from Latin, and roughly means »to design« or »to execute«. In 1972 Werner and Axel Bruchhäuser took over the company. Bruchhäuser remains in charge to this day, jointly since 2001 with his nephew Christian Drescher. In 1979 Axel Bruchhäuser established the Burg Beverungen Chair Museum. Between 1990 and 2003 the architects Alison & Peter Smithson extended and redesigned the company site to form a unique Tecta landscape. In 2003 the Chair Museum moved into the newly built Cantilever Chair Museum and Tecta Archive, designed by Peter Smithson in Lauenförde. Tecta is a medium-sized company and produces all of its furniture at its own facility in Lauenförde. Approximately 40 people are employed in our joinery, metalworking, upholstery and wicker workshops. Numerous items of furniture created by avant-garde designers of the 1920s, such as Walter Gropius’ Fagus armchair or Marcel Breuer’s glass cabinet, have been mass-produced for the first time by Tecta. In this way, Tecta fulfils a function similar to Cassina in Italy and Knoll International in the USA. Tecta’s faithful and licensed re-editions of Bauhaus models are approved by the Bauhaus Archive in Berlin and bear as an imprint the Bauhaus symbol designed by Oskar Schlemmer in 1922 at the original Bauhaus school in Weimar. Tecta also works with a variety of contemporary architects and artists, such as Sergius Ruegenberg, Jean Prouvé, Alison & Peter Smithson, Stefan Wewerka and Al Hansen to create modern furniture based on Bauhaus principles. Our cantilever chairs provide a good example of this approach. While Tecta produces re-editions of original Bauhaus cantilever chair designs by Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, we have also developed new Bauhaus-derived models such as the B25. During the 1980s we also designed, in close cooperation with Stefan Wewerka, the Einschwinger chair (literally ‘single swinger’), which is formed from a single steel tube. This unique design represents the ultimate reduction of the cantilever chair design principle. 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Which trends stood out most? A summary in the retrospect.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/orgatec-review-highlights-trends-koelnmesse-design-post-koeln-office-stylepark-magazine) [FAIRS & EVENTS The Design Confectionery 10/1/2026 From 24 to 27 September 2026, the ‘neue räume’ design trade fair took place in Hall 550 in Zurich-Oerlikon. Read our review of the International Exhibition for Living, Furniture and Design to find out what the exhibitors were showcasing.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/new-spaces-zurich-design-trade-fair-switzerland-stefan-zwicky-judith-raeber-crafts-architecture-stylepark-magazine) [FAIRS & EVENTS A new design festival for Berlin 8/27/2026 In September 2026, Currents. Design in Berlin kicks off a new festival for product and interior design. Around 80 participants will be taking part at some 60 venues across the city, showcasing exhibitions, events and projects.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/currents-design-in-berlin-festival-new-stylepark-magazine) [REVIEW – SALONE DEL MOBILE & MILAN DESIGN WEEK 2026 The Great Desire 4/28/2026 The Salone del Mobile and Milan Design Week 2026 kept us busy last week. What themes are the exhibitors focusing on, and what developments are emerging?](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/salone-del-mobile-milan-design-week-design-architecture-event-trade-fair-review-stylepark-magazine) [YOUNG TALENTS "Design is work" 9/10/2024 With cardboard and tenacity: Berlin designer Pascal Hien founded his own studio last year after ten years at the Fabrica Research Centre, Steelcase and Konstantin Grcic. Hien's first designs for Tecta and Le Klint have just been launched on the market.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/pascal-hien-design-young-talents-design-interior-stylepark-magazine) [FAIRS & EVENTS La Mamma Marva 4/8/2024 The SaloneSatellite is celebrating its 25th anniversary: Marva Griffin founded the platform for young designers as a pioneer in 1998. What do they have to thank the SaloneSatellite for? We asked them.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/salonesatellite-marva-griffin-25-years-design-stylepark-magazine) [REVIEW – IMM COLOGNE 2024 Becoming a community 1/18/2024 imm cologne took place in Cologne from 14 to 18 January 2024, the first time since the breakout of the coronavirus pandemic on the regular January date. Our review.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/imm-cologne-designpost-passagen-furniture-fair-cologne-review-stylepark-magazin) [INTERVIEWS Three questions to Marco Dessí 4/20/2022 Industrial and product designer Marco Dessí was born in the Italian city of Merano in the South Tyrolean Alps and lives in Vienna. He tells us in an interview why design is an interactive process for him and it is worthwhile to reinterpret the work of the old masters.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/marco-dessi-vienna-design-3-questions) [NEW WORK The Changing World of Work 11/18/2020 British flexible workspace provider The Office Group is opening its first branch in Germany, “Kontorhaus Mitte” in Berlin. With this in mind, Studio Weiss–heiten has provided the office floors in the Kleihues-Karree with a harmonious update.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/tog-kontorhaus-berlin-new-work) [IMM COLOGNE 2019 Forwards, sideways, backwards 1/25/2019 Contrasts, visions and the Bauhaus: Looking back on the imm cologne 2019 trade fair.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/imm-cologne-2019-review-stylepark-selected) [STYLEPARK SELECTED SALONE DEL MOBILE 2018 The Award Winners 4/14/2018 Here they are: the 29 innovations Stylepark awards at the Salone del Mobile 2018 as part of Stylepark Selected.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/stylepark-selected-salone-del-mobile-2018-winner) [STYLEPARK SELECTED SALONE DEL MOBILE 2018 Stylepark Selected Salone del Mobile 2018: Our Sneak-Preview 4/12/2018 Premiere in Milan: At the Salone del Mobile 2018 Stylepark awards the most successful innovations for the first time in the context of Stylepark Selected.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/stylepark-selected-salone-del-mobile-2018) [DESIGN Stretch out and lay 5/16/2017 Be it on castors, suspended, or a fold-out: We present sun recliners which you will simply want to stay lying on.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/sun-lounger-garden-outdoor-design) [IMM COLOGNE 2017 All of you seated, feel embraced 1/23/2017 Diversity is a great thing, but makes orientation a tad harder. One possible antidote: revivals, furniture in XXXL, and armchairs that hug the seated. On all the things the imm cologne 2017 had to offer.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/review-imm-cologne-2017) [STYLEPARK IMM COLOGNE 2017 Ingenious semicircle 12/21/2016 First turn it, then fold it out: “Lot” by Wolfgang Hartauer for Tecta](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/imm-cologne-top-ten-preview-design-novelty-tecta-hartauer-folding-table-lot-massive-wood) [INTERVIEWS I felt like a chameleon 12/6/2016 Hamburg‘s Designxport design center is dedicating a retrospective to designer Peter Maly on the occasion of his 80th birthday. Thomas Edelmann talked with him about his own career path and industry trends in recent decades.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/i-felt-like-a-chameleon) [FAIRS & EVENTS What’s New 1/7/2016 The trade-fair cycle starts to turn again. From January 18-24 the imm cologne opens its doors. We took a quick peek behind them and spotted the one or other novelty.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/whats-new) [FAIRS & EVENTS Simple and smart – perfect working from home 10/10/2014 Working from home – a convenient alternative in today’s networked age. Working at the dinner table or cram heavy-duty desks is not necessary – considering the abundance of small, delicate, readily movable and well-designed alternatives. We present the best choices.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/simple-and-smart-perfect-working-from-home) [FAIRS & EVENTS Werner and the Cologne charts 1/6/2014 “Welcome Ladies and Gentlemen. Cologne calling. We’re presenting the international interior furniture fair to you.” It’s imm cologne time again and much sounds like the old top-of-the-pops charts. So let’s check out who or what’s behind the current line-up.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/werner-and-the-cologne-charts) [MAGAZINE Twelve outdoor classics 5/8/2013 Stylish and fit for any activity: Outdoor classics for sitting, lounging or just looking pretty. Attractive, cool and simply indispensable.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/twelve-outdoor-classics) [MAGAZINE On your marks, get ready for… Milan 4/7/2010 To obtain an overview over the new products in the run-up to the international furniture fair "Salone del Mobile" in Milan, Stylepark has combed through the maze of highpoints to give you a foretaste of some of the product highlights you can expect.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/on-your-marks-get-ready-for-milan) [MAGAZINE Bauhaus Revisited 12/15/2009 A visit to Tecta in Lauenförde is like an excursion into a different, better world. There, managing director Axel Bruchhäuser has created a cosmos where the Bauhaus and international post-war architects and artists enter into a fantastic symbiosis.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/bauhaus-revisited) [MAGAZINE Here’s to the new! 4/14/2009 The time has come around again for the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan to open its doors and for the design world to flock to the northern Italian city. And, as always, the question that's being asked is: who has the most beautiful new things to offer? Here is a small foretaste.](https://www.stylepark.com/en/news/heres-to-the-new) Address Bruchhäuser & Drescher OHG Sohnreystrasse 10 37697 Lauenförde Germany T: +49 (0) 5273 3789 0 F: +49 (0) 5273- 378 933 - Estimate - Printed catalogue Products [![D70](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/_1410x940_crop_center-center_none/Ebene-1.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/tecta/d70) [TECTA D70](https://www.stylepark.com/en/tecta/d70) [![K7](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/manufacturers/_1410x940_crop_center-center_none/TECTA_K7_Thomas_Schnur_Eiche_3.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/tecta/k7) [TECTA K7](https://www.stylepark.com/en/tecta/k7) [![D9](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/articles/_1410x940_crop_center-center_none/D9-1_200106_104513.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/tecta/d9) [TECTA D9](https://www.stylepark.com/en/tecta/d9) [![K5](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/articles/_1410x940_crop_center-center_none/K5_01.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/tecta/k5) [TECTA K5](https://www.stylepark.com/en/tecta/k5) [![S4-2](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/articles/_1410x940_crop_center-center_none/EP03685-0206.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/tecta/s4-2) [TECTA S4-2](https://www.stylepark.com/en/tecta/s4-2) [![K6](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/articles/_1410x940_crop_center-center_none/EP03824-0117.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/tecta/k6) [TECTA K6](https://www.stylepark.com/en/tecta/k6) [![Cut](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/articles/_1410x940_crop_center-center_none/EP03685-0223.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/tecta/cut) [TECTA Cut](https://www.stylepark.com/en/tecta/cut) [![D4N Esther Wilson](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/articles/_1410x940_crop_center-center_none/EP03685-0037.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/tecta/d4n-esther-wilson) [TECTA D4N Esther Wilson](https://www.stylepark.com/en/tecta/d4n-esther-wilson) [![D4N Kerstin Bruchhäuser](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/articles/_1410x940_crop_center-center_none/EP03685-0028.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/tecta/d4n-kerstin-bruchh%C3%A4user) [TECTA D4N Kerstin Bruchhäuser](https://www.stylepark.com/en/tecta/d4n-kerstin-bruchh%C3%A4user) [![F51N](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/articles/_1410x940_crop_center-center_none/EP03685-0070.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/tecta/f51n) [TECTA F51N](https://www.stylepark.com/en/tecta/f51n) [![K10N](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/articles/_1410x940_crop_center-center_none/EP03685-0096.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/tecta/k10n) [TECTA K10N](https://www.stylepark.com/en/tecta/k10n) [![D1N](https://www.stylepark.com/assets/transformations/articles/_1410x940_crop_center-center_none/EP03685-0001.jpg)](https://www.stylepark.com/en/tecta/d1n) [TECTA D1N](https://www.stylepark.com/en/tecta/d1n) [All products](https://www.stylepark.com/en/products/manufacturer/tecta)