Fuld ‘Bauhaus’ Phone

The Fuld telephone was created in 1927 as part of the “New Frankfurt” comprehensive urban planning programme, a modern low-cost housing development intended to relieve the post World War I housing shortage. The German Werkbund and the Bauhaus were involved in this project, and the phone is thus often called the Bauhaus phone. Every apartment was fitted with one of these phones, the parts of which were standardised and mostly made in small workshops. The design of the Fuld telephone has been attributed to Marcel Breuer and Richard Schadewell.

This version with black bakelite handset and textile cable was produced until the 1930s and then continued by variants with differently shaped handsets and plastic elements.