Background
Alfons Bach was born in Magdeburg, Germany. He grew up in Munich.
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He attended school in Berlin. Before his move, he had studied film and design.
Career
He is known for his architectural design projects and his tubular steel furniture, which have been described as "icons for their period."
He moved to New York, New York in 1926. Bach designed the remodeling of Sach"s and the Seneca Textile Building, both in New York City. His work was exhibited in early contemporary industrial art shows at the Metropolitan Museum of Artist
In 1938 he designed his own home in Stamford, Connecticut.
He led the project to build the Ridgeway Center, one of the first shopping malls in the United States. Bach designed tubular steel furniture in the 1930s for the Lloyd Manufacturing Company.
They continued to produce his pieces until 1947. These tubular pieces are considered a link between Bauhaus and modern design style.
He moved to Florida in 1959.
He designed the Palm Trial Plaza in Delray Beach. He curated the United States exhibition at the International Industrial Design Exhibition in 1969. He designed work for General Electric, Keystone Silver, Pacific Mills and Bigelow-Samford.
He served as president of the American Designers Institute.
In 1992, he moved to Pensacola, Florida where he died in a nursing home, in 1999. His work is held in the collection of the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum and the Yale University Art Gallery.
