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the art school that decided your chair should be honest about being a chair.
means a german design school (1919-1933) that fused art, craft, and industry into a style built on function over decoration.
from founded in weimar in 1919 by architect walter gropius, who merged an arts academy with a crafts school; the name means literally build house, and the whole point was tearing down the wall between fine artist and skilled maker.
lifespanlasted just 14 years before the nazis shut it
three citiesweimar, then dessau, then berlin, chased by politics
tuition odditystudents paid fees based on what they could afford
closed by nazisdeemed a hotbed of degenerate art in 1933
for instance
barcelona chair — mies van der rohe, 1929, still sold for thousands today
wassily chair — marcel breuer bent tubular steel like bicycle handlebars, 1925
dessau building — gropius's glass-curtain-wall campus, unesco site since 1996
bauhaus typeface — herbert bayer's lowercase-only alphabet, no capitals allowed