Home / The Edit News & Events Plusminus solves the puzzle of two spaces News & Events Plusminus solves the puzzle of two spaces Pendant lamps hang from a metal bar, spotlighting a series of Bauhaus-era chairs against a stark black backdrop. Across 100 years of design history, a highly technical contemporary lighting system communes with Bauhaus-era chairs.This is a new exhibition designed by Stefan Diez, which uses his endlessly adaptable Plusminus lighting system for Vibia to illuminate and spotlight the chairs of Bauhaus designer Erich Dieckmann (1896-1944): a figure whose work is admired amongst designers, but little known among a wider public. Titled Chairs: Dieckmann! The forgotten Bauhäusler Erich Dieckmann, this exhibition of Dieckmann’s work was first displayed at the Saxony-Anhalt Art Foundation in Halle, Germany, before moving on to the Kunstgewerbemuseum in Berlin. Designing an exhibition that could suit the distinct dimensions of the two venues provided a particular challenge for Diez’s studio. The ceiling heights of the Saxony-Anhalt Art Foundation and the Kunstgewerbemuseum differ by 5m in places, while both institutions requested that the exhibitions not make any structural alterations to the exhibitions rooms. To make matters even more complex, the pieces on display are delicate objects, including Dieckmann’s first ever chair (which was woven from rushes in 1923). As such, the exhibition required precisely controlled lighting conditions so as not to damage this vital part of design history.