Bauhaus and Mid Century Modern Design
2019 is the 100th anniversary of the creation of The Bauhaus. An art and design movement that any lover of Mid Century design should be eternally thankful for. In fact no school of design has been as influential as the Bauhaus.
Founded in Germany in 1919, by architect Walter Gropius, the School of design and architecture only lasted 14 years before it was shut down by the Nazis in 1933. This, however did not dampen the Bauhaus movement, in fact it just propelled it into a modern phenomenon. Many of the Bauhaus' most notable teachers emigrated to other countries to spread the philosophy and it went on to inform the entire Modernist movement worldwide, particularly in Europe and the United States.
They took advantage of new technological advances in materials and mass production, and exploited the juxtaposition of different and contrasting materials. The new look was marked by buildings with large expanses of glass windows, tubular steel frames for furnishings, sleek materials like leather, steel and plastic, as well as generally sparse decorations.
In the US the Mid Century Modern movement was an American reflection of the Bauhaus style, along with the International style (developed in the 1920s and 1930s in Holland, France and Germany, it was characterized by a rejection of all ornament and colour with repetitive modular forms).
Bauhaus also became the cornerstone of the modern Scandinavian design movement that emerged in Denmark, Norway and Sweden in the 1950s. Scandinavian countries, along with Finland and Iceland, were quick to embrace the design philosophy of Bauhaus and make it their own because the love for local materials and functional forms was already embedded in their culture.
If you would like to read more about the Bauhaus and it’s legacy, Dezeen’s have written an excellent series of articles exploring the school's key figures, projects and influences: https://www.dezeen.com/bauhaus-100/
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Bauhaus building from Pixabay.com
Wassily Chair by Marcel Breuer from Lorkan, Wikimedia Commons
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