Designer · Poland · 1900–1987
Bohdan Lachert
Bohdan Lachert (1900–1987) – Polish avant-garde architect, member of Praesens, co-designer of Saska Kępa villas and Muranów estate, furniture designer.
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About the designer
- Lifetime
- 1900–1987
- Country
- Poland
Bohdan Lachert was born in 1900 in Moscow and died in 1987 in Warsaw. In 1919 he began studying law, and from 1920 he studied architecture at Warsaw University of Technology, graduating in 1926.
During the interwar period, he collaborated with Józef Szanajca as part of the avant-garde Praesens group. Together they designed the Centrocement pavilion at the General National Exhibition in Poznań (1929), the Tabita Deaconesses' Home (concept dating from 1928), villas in Saska Kępa – including the Szyller villa from 1928, demolished in 2002 – and the ZUS terraced houses in Żoliborz (1934). Lachert also designed furniture and interior furnishings: armchairs, desks and wardrobes; in 1928 he patented a deckchair with two metal frames.
After the war, he designed the Muranów estate in Warsaw (1947) and the Cemetery-Mausoleum of Soviet Soldiers in Warsaw (1950). In 1984 he received the SARP Honorary Award, awarded by the Association of Polish Architects for his overall body of work. His designs for furniture and furnishings – armchairs, desks, wardrobes and a patented deckchair – accompanied his architectural works, forming a coherent whole with them in the spirit of the avant-garde of the 1920s and 1930s.
Key designs
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South Muranów Estate in Warsaw together with the Muranów cinema
