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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The original structure’s blockwork has been replaced by in-situ concrete Destroyed in air raids, two masters’ houses at the Bauhaus have been “playfully” reinterpreted using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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Isola Design Group Returns to Dubai Design Week with Its Biggest Edition Yet and the Launch of Designwhere

Original BTC’s new portable lamp celebrates British ceramic craft

ICON Picks: 10 best new-season design and lifestyle launches

MU Architecture creates a Japanese-inspired family home in Montreal

Design at Work New York announces opening of visitor registration

‘The least tangible things can have the biggest impact’: Fletcher Priest Architects on design, wellbeing and how spaces make us feel

Merrie Elisabet Wells wins Shoreditch Design Week Award with product Ūru Loop

Kirkby unveils a bold new visual identity

Christoph Hefti Unveils His Fantastical World at Zurich’s Museum of Design




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MU Architecture creates a Japanese-inspired family home in Montreal

‘The least tangible things can have the biggest impact’: Fletcher Priest Architects on design, wellbeing and how spaces make us feel

Atelier HA designs MELT’s new Panthéon restaurant in Paris

‘We have a moral obligation to experiment’: Bas Smets unveils Vitra’s new Water Garden

Open House Festival opens hundreds of London buildings this September

The contemporary Magdalen House in Quebec brings a new perspective to coastal architecture

A Douro winery by Atelier Sérgio Rebelo connects design with wine traditions

This Copenhagen park nurtures climate resilience and neighbourhood life

Vipp brings Scandinavian hospitality to Upstate New York


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Isola Design Group Returns to Dubai Design Week with Its Biggest Edition Yet and the Launch of Designwhere

Original BTC’s new portable lamp celebrates British ceramic craft

ICON Picks: 10 best new-season design and lifestyle launches

Design at Work New York announces opening of visitor registration

‘The least tangible things can have the biggest impact’: Fletcher Priest Architects on design, wellbeing and how spaces make us feel

Merrie Elisabet Wells wins Shoreditch Design Week Award with product Ūru Loop

Kirkby unveils a bold new visual identity

Christoph Hefti Unveils His Fantastical World at Zurich’s Museum of Design

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Isola Design Group Returns to Dubai Design Week with Its Biggest Edition Yet and the Launch of Designwhere

Original BTC’s new portable lamp celebrates British ceramic craft

ICON Picks: 10 best new-season design and lifestyle launches

MU Architecture creates a Japanese-inspired family home in Montreal

Design at Work New York announces opening of visitor registration

‘The least tangible things can have the biggest impact’: Fletcher Priest Architects on design, wellbeing and how spaces make us feel

Merrie Elisabet Wells wins Shoreditch Design Week Award with product Ūru Loop

Kirkby unveils a bold new visual identity

Christoph Hefti Unveils His Fantastical World at Zurich’s Museum of Design