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Posts tagged 'Bauhaus'

From the Archive: A short history of Marcel Breuer’s Wassily chair

First a student then a teacher at the Bauhaus, Marcel Breuer designed many innovative pieces. His Wassily chair is the most iconic Words by Debika

Design

Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion heralded the modernist era

The Barcelona Pavilion was a hugely significant temporary structure that forms part of the early modernist canon of architecture Designed by modernism’s golden child Mies

Architecture

How radical was the modernist Frankfurt kitchen?

The Frankfurt Kitchen. Courtesy of the Minneapolis Institute of Art Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky’s mass-produced, modular kitchen transformed domestic life but shows that modernist efficiency didn’t necessarily lead

Design

Villa Savoye: Le Corbusier’s exemplary modernist building

Villa Savoye is a definitive example of a modernist building. Set in the Parisian suburb of Poissy, it was designed by Swiss architect and modernist

Architecture

Mies van der Rohe: From the Bauhaus to the height of modernism

German-American architect Mies van der Rohe is one of the pioneers of the modernist movement, devising in a paper sketch the world’s first glass skyscraper

Architecture

Food for thought: Le Corbuffet brings architectural history to the dinner table

Robert Rauschenburger,. Photo by Esther Choi Writing about food has never been so good, or serious, as now. Le Corbuffet, Esther Choi’s book of recipes

Opinion

Plastic, disposable and ugly: Why toothbrushes are a crime against design

What would the Bauhaus have made of a world that dresses up simple tools as high-performance sportswear? asks Max Fraser Long before the toothbrush became

Design

Haunted Houses: Meet the Bauhaus designers who went east instead of west

A building in Sotsgorod Uralmash, Yekaterinburg, in the 1930s. Photo by Dima Protasevich Gropius, Mies and Breuer headed to the US – but some Bauhaus alumnae

Architecture

Icon 194: Performativity, Functionality and Design

Photo by Alessandro Merlo August’s issue looks at how architecture embraced performance over function and blurred the boundaries of design and production This month’s issue

Opinion

How the Bauhaus Museum in Weimar uses architecture to link the design movement to Germany’s past and present

 Visualisation of the detail on the front of the Bauhaus Museum in Weimar. Image courtesy of the Heike Hanada Laboratory of Art and Architecture In

Architecture

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Aesop’s Queer Library returns for its fifth edition

Formafantasma and C-mine capture the relationship between humans and the environment with new book

Bomarsund Visitor Centre: A Dialogue Between Past and Present 

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The National Museum of Norway explores how New Nordic Cuisine sparked an international phenomenon in new exhibition

Ismael Medina Manzano designs small apartment in San Sebastián with flexible living spaces

Henry Holland brings contemporary flair to traditional patterns in a new collection for Floor Story

Six Senses Ibiza installs off-grid sundial sculpture by Sabine Marcelis at resort’s subterranean Beach Caves

New Designers celebrates 40 years of nurturing UK creative talent




Architects

Ismael Medina Manzano designs small apartment in San Sebastián with flexible living spaces

The Brecon designed by Nicemakers combines local craftsmanship and Welsh design touches to create midcentury-inspired interior

Return of a legend: Gathering revives Cologne’s iconic Café Central

worc.studio blends earthy colours and natural materials at Casa Símera in Polanco, Mexico City

Meet the creative duo preserving a slice of history in the Cilento National Park

StudioAC adds soft pink curves and stainless-steel to interior of popular cookie shop in Toronto

How do we define completeness in architecture? Build of Site examines the case for building on what’s already here

Pelletier de Fontenay transforms century-old home in Quebec’s Eastern Townships

Universal Design Studio and AKQA design interiors for new Georg Jensen flagship showroom on New Bond Street


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Aesop’s Queer Library returns for its fifth edition

Formafantasma and C-mine capture the relationship between humans and the environment with new book

&Tradition partners with Industrial Facility to launch new shelving system

The National Museum of Norway explores how New Nordic Cuisine sparked an international phenomenon in new exhibition

Henry Holland brings contemporary flair to traditional patterns in a new collection for Floor Story

Six Senses Ibiza installs off-grid sundial sculpture by Sabine Marcelis at resort’s subterranean Beach Caves

Design in a Real World exhibition at Villa Marie celebrates Tuscan heritage and contemporary design

Revolutionary architectural colour theory

The new cabin suites of Sea Containers London honour the golden ages of transatlantic travel


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Aesop’s Queer Library returns for its fifth edition

Formafantasma and C-mine capture the relationship between humans and the environment with new book

Bomarsund Visitor Centre: A Dialogue Between Past and Present 

&Tradition partners with Industrial Facility to launch new shelving system

The National Museum of Norway explores how New Nordic Cuisine sparked an international phenomenon in new exhibition

Ismael Medina Manzano designs small apartment in San Sebastián with flexible living spaces

Henry Holland brings contemporary flair to traditional patterns in a new collection for Floor Story

Six Senses Ibiza installs off-grid sundial sculpture by Sabine Marcelis at resort’s subterranean Beach Caves

New Designers celebrates 40 years of nurturing UK creative talent