Exhibition: Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld 4 March –16 May 2007

Businessman and art collector Hermann Lange maintained a close working relationship with Mies van der Rohe and interior designer Lilly Reich, their associations involving family, friends, and Lange’s company. From 1927 to 1930, this resulted in structures such as Lange’s own home, Haus Lange in Krefeld, as well as the “Crous” apartment for Lange’s eldest daughter and her husband in Berlin. The couple took the decor and furnishings for this apartment—down to the bell plate—to all of their later apartments, into the nineties. This volume is therefore the first to present many of van der Rohe’s and Reich’s furniture pieces, as well as the original decor from Haus Lange (now a museum), thus providing new insights into the collaboration of the two designers.