Out of the Display Case: Plastics – Innovations brought into shape
Out of the Display Case: Plastics – Innovations brought into shape
Object talk
Out of the Display Case: Plastics – Innovations brought into shape.
Everyday goods made from Resopal by Christian Dell
Everyday goods made from Resopal by Christian Dell
8 Oct 2025
6 – 7:30 pm
6 – 7:30 pm
Bauhaus Museum Dessau
Parts of a bright red coffee and dinner service made of Resopal, designed by Christian Dell in 1929 and manufactured by H. Römmler AG, form the starting point for this evening, which focuses on plastic as a material.
The late 1920s and early 1930s saw the beginning of plastic design in Germany. The company H. Römmler AG in Spremberg began manufacturing Resopal in 1929/1930, initially under the name Alboresin.
The designer Christian Dell was master craftsman of the metal workshop at the Bauhaus in Weimar from 1922 to 1925. Juliane Aleithe, research assistant at the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation, will talk about the role that promising plastics played at the Bauhaus in Dessau and the significance of the material in the post-war period. Debates about recycling and approaches to new plastics illustrate the ambivalence of this innovative material.
Language: German
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