ClassiCon Mandu Valet

Designer: Eckart Muthesius, 1932

ClassiCon Mandu Valet Stand - a mute servant

Mandu Valet by ClassiCon: The mute servant already stood in a palace. The Maharajah Yeshwant Rao Holkar II commissioned his friend Eckart Muthesius in 1929 to furnish his palace Manik Bagh with furniture and accessories. The two men had met at Oxford University. Muthesius, a German architect, made sure that the palace featured both Bauhaus style and Art Deco. The furniture and lighting were shipped from Germany to Indore, where they were showcased in the palace. In 1956, the Maharajas lost their political power and had to leave the palace, and the interior furnishings were auctioned off by the Sotheby's auction house in 1980. Manik Bagh is now an administrative building.

Art décoratif,the decorative art

Many of the furniture and lighting fixtures were designed by Muthesius himself, including the Mandu Valet stand, the elegant Art Deco appearance. The original from 1932 was made in chrome, now are also available in black and bronze (powder coated). The Maharajah can not yet have had the practical slip stop for pants and the plastic glides: A work of art is the Mandu Valet all through its stylized representation with organic appeal. The mute valet guarantees that shirt, trousers and jacket are available wrinkle-free the next morning. That is pure service!

The designer Friedrich Eckart Muthesius

Friedrich Eckart Muthesius (1904 -1989) was an architect and interior designer. He studied in Berlin and London and was a master student of his father Hermann Muthesius, who had co-founded the Deutscher Werkbund. Friedrich Muthesius became an official urban planning advisor to the princely state of Indore and left his mark on modern Indian architecture until 1939. The outbreak of World War II forced Muthesius to leave India. After the war, he built hospitals and functional buildings for the US Army in Germany. Immediately after his death, some of Muthesius' furniture designs were reissued.