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Posts tagged 'Bauhaus'

Icon 193: 100 Years of the Bauhaus and the Design School’s Global Influence

We celebrate the centenary of the design school with a look at the lesser known impact it had globally and its surprising relationship with Expressionism The

Opinion

Thonet at 200: Surviving Bauhaus

Thonet is the furniture company that was modernist before the modernists, and – now in its 200th year  – outlasted them all, writes John Jervis

Design

Selling Germany: Design as Propaganda

  The cult of German design tells of industrial strength driven by the functionalist legacy of the Bauhaus. But is this traditional narrative anything more

Architecture

The Ulm Model

An exhibition tracing the influence of the German city’s industrial design school provides a welcome reminder of the appeal of radical pragmatism, writes Peter Smisek

Opinion

Hella Jongerius: “There’s too much shopping without any social or environmental consciousness”

The self-proclaimed “design pastor” denounced production “without any social or environmental consciousness” and called on designers to be more responsible at Design Indaba in Cape Town

Design

The Promise

Born2007 by Jeremiah Day – former checkpoint and used-car lot in Bornholmer Strasse, Berlin An exhibition on the role of art in reimagining the city is

Opinion

Masters’ Houses at Dessau

The original structure’s blockwork has been replaced by in-situ concrete Destroyed in air raids, two masters’ houses at the Bauhaus have been “playfully” reinterpreted using

Architecture

In Search of a Forgotten Architect: Stefan Sebök 1901-41

Stefan Sebök was an architectural Zelig. It would be difficult to conjure up a character who worked deeper in the heart of successive avant gardes

Opinion

Bauhaus

In a time of financial disaster, there’s one exhibit in Bauhaus: Art as Life that really catches the eye. It comes from a room on

Opinion

The Future of Architecture Since 1889

Part of Jean-Louis Cohen’s strength as a thinker is the way he traces the transfer of architectural ideas rather than simple aesthetics. He explains how

Opinion

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Editor’s Picks: 10 best new-season design and lifestyle launches

ICON Awards 2026: Recognising influential architecture, design, and culture

How designers turn raw materials into objects at Aram’s Mould exhibition

Ele Harper-Colman wins the CDW Award at New Designers 2025

Cape Town Furniture Week celebrates contemporary craft for its fourth edition

Earl of East and Sampha debut Sensory Nectar candle

Practice on Earth transforms Ningbo farmland with inflatable architecture

Design Interventions reshape Clerkenwell Design Week for its 15th edition

Editor’s Picks: The Scandinavian design launches from Stockholm Design Days




Architects

Practice on Earth transforms Ningbo farmland with inflatable architecture

YOD Group designs contemporary Ukrainian mazanka guesthouses

Luca A. Caizzi explores Milan through metal surfaces in new book

LANZA atelier uses curving brick design for Serpentine Pavilion 2026

This new build in North London features a playful exterior by architecture practice NIKJOO

How architecture studio DEDRAFT revamped a mid-1960s modernist house

MoDusArchitects completes contemporary Alpine home in Val di Non

Fondazione MAST kicks off 7th edition of Foto/Industria with a citywide exploration into the meaning of home

Triennale Milano transforms a historic Milan venue into a design-driven stage where music and collaboration lead the way


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Editor’s Picks: 10 best new-season design and lifestyle launches

ICON Awards 2026: Recognising influential architecture, design, and culture

How designers turn raw materials into objects at Aram’s Mould exhibition

Ele Harper-Colman wins the CDW Award at New Designers 2025

Cape Town Furniture Week celebrates contemporary craft for its fourth edition

Earl of East and Sampha debut Sensory Nectar candle

Design Interventions reshape Clerkenwell Design Week for its 15th edition

Editor’s Picks: The Scandinavian design launches from Stockholm Design Days

Petite Friture reissues René Herbst’s landmark Sandows Collection



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Editor’s Picks: 10 best new-season design and lifestyle launches

ICON Awards 2026: Recognising influential architecture, design, and culture

How designers turn raw materials into objects at Aram’s Mould exhibition

Ele Harper-Colman wins the CDW Award at New Designers 2025

Cape Town Furniture Week celebrates contemporary craft for its fourth edition

Earl of East and Sampha debut Sensory Nectar candle

Practice on Earth transforms Ningbo farmland with inflatable architecture

Design Interventions reshape Clerkenwell Design Week for its 15th edition

Editor’s Picks: The Scandinavian design launches from Stockholm Design Days