"House of Buildings"
The Bauhaus school was a extension of the Weimar school of design, founded by professor Walter Gropius. Gropius created innovative designs that borrowed materials and methods of construction from modern technology. He is regarded as one of the pioneering masters of Modern Architecture.
The Bauhaus was distinctive for its modern learning and it led to the acceptance of modern architecture and design throughout the world. They adapted the new manufacturing technologies to making items for home, and students had the opportunity for work experience and the concept of working as teams and testing problems. They focused on design to except change and a need to control the machine, by educating the designers. They were also well prepared to meet the challenges of industry and the trade. The Bauhaus revolutionised artistic and architectural thinking and production worldwide, and is considered a headstone of the Modern Age. The Bauhaus was closed in 1933 due to constant pressure from the Nazi regime.
- Rooms predominantly plain, neutral colours using textural contrast to provide interest and a splash of strong use of the primary colours, chrome-plated steel and veneered plywood.
- Shapes - elegant, functional and no extra orientation.
- Philosophy became recognized as the new use of glass and steel - typical geometric shapes of the Bauhaus, important influences on the modern style.
Slatted Chair ti 1a, design 1924. Marcel Breuer
Weimar Classics Foundation
This version of the slatted chair is a further development of a design dating from 1922, which was based on the design principles of De Stijl. The elastic and included seat, as well as the elastic rear belts, was intended to promote a comfortable and ergonomic seated posture.
Siebenbrodt, Michael (Ed.): Bauhaus Weimar. Designs for the Future, Ostfildern-Ruit 2000.
'Long Chair' Marcel Breuer, 1935-1936
Isokon Furniture Company
Reclining chair of laminated (birch) ply, the angled back-rest and shaped seat of one continuous piece of moulded plywood supported by a bent plywood frame consisting of three separate elements.
Height: 730mm Width: 620mm
Bauhaus Table Lamp original. 1924
Wilhelm Wagerfeld
Milky-glass shade (inside opal glass; outside clear glass) with chromium-plated steel drame on glass base. Gable with black woven fabric. The Wagenfeld table lamp WA 24 continues to be manufactured on this basis, following the original specifications for demensions and materials. All lamps are consecutively numbered under the base and bear the Bauhaus and Technolumen ® logos.
Diffuser Width: 18thcm x Height: 36cm
Light bulb: 1 x max. 75W Incandescent
Glass, metal
Can be purchased from InteriorDeluxe or a replica can be found at MattBlatt for a lower price.
"Gunta Stölzl (5 March 1897 – 22 April 1983) was a German textile artist who played a fundamental role in the development of the Bauhaus school’s weaving workshop. As the Bauhaus’s only female master she created enormous change within the weaving department as it transitioned from individual pictorial works to modern industrial designs. She joined the Bauhaus as a student in 1920, became a junior master in 1927 and a full master the next year. She was dismissed for political reasons in 1931, a year before the Bauhaus closed under pressure from the Nazis. The textile department was a neglected part of the Bauhaus when Ms. Stölzl began her career, and its active masters were weak on the technical aspects of textile production. She soon became a mentor to other students and reopened the Bauhaus dye studios in 1921. After a brief departure, Stölzl became the school's weaving director in 1925 when it relocated from Weimar to Dessau and expanded the department to increase its weaving and dyeing facilities. She applied ideas from modern art to weaving, experimented with synthetic materials, and improved the department's technical instruction to include courses in mathematics. The Bauhaus weaving workshop became one of its most successful facilities under her direction."
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