When Axel Bruchhäuser left East Germany in the 1970s and came to the West, he first tried to contact the masters of functionalism, tracked down Dutchman Mart Stam in Switzerland, visited Marcel Breuer in New York and found the family of the Russian El Lissitzky in Siberian exile. He acquired his first licenses at the time, which would form the foundation for the Tecta program, to which the young Peter Maly also made an important contribution at this early stage. Bruchhäuser was not only active as archaeologist of Modernism, but also as executor of wills. Numerous designs were first machine-made at Tecta, such as Breuer’s glass case and the F 51 easychair by Walter Gropius. For Breuer’s practical folding easychair, the straps originally developed by Grete Reichert out of “Eisengarn” thread were specially reconstructed. Bauhaus furniture still makes up a sizeable portion of the company’s sales, including a famous tubularsteel chair by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, whose mother of all cantilevered chairs from 1927 is also in the catalogue (with natural cane seat and back by Lilly Reich), and a container and "bicycle lounger” by Marcel Breuer. The collection also includes less familiar Bauhaus names such as Erich Brendel, who added a folding table and cube-shaped, likewise folding, tea trolley to the list of functional pieces. Peter Keler achieved a modicum of fame with his Kandinsky cradle (1922) and Kubus block chair (1925). Further facets of classical Modernism have long since been added to the mix, such as the D 5 cantilevered chair by Sergius Rügenberg, an employee of Mies van der Rohe. Also among the constructivist gems of the between-war period is Lissitzky’s midnight blue plywood chair (1930). His Tisch des Ansagers ( Announcer’s Table) was also reissued, the asymmetrical panels of which became a leitmotif amongst the Tecta tables. Interesting contributions of more recent vintage come from Stefan Wewerka and the American couple Alison & Peter Smithson. Bruchhäuser and his team are also behind several designs, such as the B 20 cantilevered chair. Here, early 20th century avant-gardism enters a liaison with the vanguard design of today.