Art Deco Bauhaus Furniture
Greats designers of furniture Art Deco 1920 - 1939 & Bauhaus 1919 - 1933
The Bauhaus began with an utopian definition: "The building of the future" was to combine all the arts in ideal unity.
This required a new type of artist beyond academic specialisation, for whom the Bauhaus would offer adequate education.Walter Gropius (founded in 1919.), saw the necessity to develop new teaching methods and was convinced that the base for any art (office, home furniture) was to be foundfont in handcraft.
The New Bauhaus, founded in 1937 in Chicago, was the immediate successor to the Bauhaus dissolved in 1933 under National Socialist pressure. Bauhaus ideology had a strong impact throughout America, but it was only at the New Bauhaus that the complete as developed under Walter Gropius in Weimar and Dessau was adopted and further developed.
Art Deco was a product of new ideas its inspirations in many city early 20th Century European design styles such as Cubism, French Art Deco, German Bauhaus and Expressionism, Dutch de Stijl and Amsterdam School, Vienna Secession and others.
Famous Art Deco & Bauhaus Designers :
Josef Hoffmann, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Eileen Gray, Frank Lloyd Wright, Marcel Breuer, Wilhelm Wagenfeld, Charles Rennie Mackintosh ...
Barrel Chair
Frank Lloyd Wright, 1937
Willow Chair 1904
Charles Rennie Mackintosh,
Walter Gropius was one of the most important architects and educators of the 20th century.
A successful architect, Gropius received his professional training in Munich. After a year of travel through Spain and Italy, he joined the office of Peter Behrens, the most important European architect of the day, in Berlin.
Gropius's goal was to raise the level of product design by combining art and industry. Although these principles were inherited from English reformers like William Morris, Gropius was able to implement them when he reorganized the Arts and Crafts School in Weimar, which became the world-famous Bauhaus.
Walter Gropius
1883 - 1969