Rouge Ekkehard Fahr developed this work table, which is part of his “filigran” furniture system, initially for his own work as an architect and product designer. By 1995, Rouge Fahr had produced a limited series of five tables, each individually numbered and signed. The concept behind this unique table is its versatility as a work and drawing table with a T-square and backlit glass top for working with slides, negatives, and sketches.
 
Twenty fold-out compartments and swivel drawers provide space for utensils. The filigree frame allows the worktop to be rotated in all directions, tilted, and adjusted in height.
 
His personal “lite” work table was added to Die Neue Sammlung DNS in Munich in 2025, where the chairs from his ‘filigran’ system (“6-roller seat,” “swing seat,” and “pendulum seat”) are already archived.
 
The DNS also displays his floor lamp from the ‘M60’ lighting system, designed in 1960, which is also exhibited at MoMA in New York:
 
https://www.die-neue-sammlung.de/objekt/stehleuchte-baukasten-m60-fahr/
https://www.moma.org/collection/works/4744
 
The table, chairs, and shelf from the “filigran” system were on display in 1991 in the exhibition “Münchner Räume: Modelle neuer Innenarchitektur” (Munich Rooms: Models of New Interior Design) at the Munich City Museum.
 
The Kaiser Wilhelm Museum in Krefeld will also add a copy of “lite” to its design collection in 2026.
 
Product details “lite”:
 
Tabletop ø163cm x 6cm:
Birch plywood body with 20 rotating and folding compartments.
Center backlit and satin-finished glass top 93 x 93cm, 6mm, on both sides.
Backlighting via four dimmable compact fluorescent lamps.
Internal stainless steel chassis made of rectangular tubes, cantilevered from the axle head.
 
Frame:
Stainless steel construction with four legs ø14mm.
Floor glides ø63mm, one foot height-adjustable for floor adaptation.
Trapezoidal threaded axle ø30mm with adjustable joint to tilt the table up to 120°. Height adjustable 69–84cm.
Facsimile copies of the colored original design drawings are supplied with the table.
 
Rouge Fahr studied architecture under Egon Eiermann at the Technical University of Karlsruhe. In 1973, he founded the architectural group Planung Fahr + Partner PFP in Munich and taught at the Technical University of Munich from 1976 to 1982.
Rouge Fahr studied architecture under Egon Eiermann at the Technical University of Karlsruhe. In 1973, he founded the architectural group Planung Fahr + Partner PFP in Munich and taught at the Faculty of Architecture at the University of Stuttgart from 1976 to 1978. His extensive work has been recognized with numerous awards, including:
European Steel Construction Award (1976), German Steel Construction Award (1976), German Architecture Award (1977), BDA Award Baden-Württemberg (1977), BDA Prize Bavaria (1979 + 1981), Corporate Design Prize of the Design Center Munich (1995), Steel Construction Prize for Architecture (1996).