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100 YEARS OF BAUHAUS

Bauhaus Year 2019 – Taking stock

by Fabian Peters | 5/22/2019

The 100th anniversary of the Bauhaus is the major cultural event of the year. However, so far, has it elicited anything more than a media circus?

100 YEARS OF BAUHAUS

A labyrinth called biography

by Thomas Edelmann | 5/21/2019

Toppling a monument in the Bauhaus anniversary year? What a great idea. Thought Bernd Polster and put his reputation as an author at risk.

100 YEARS OF BAUHAUS

An extremely vibrant monument

by Fabian Peters | 5/20/2019

200 years of design history – illustrated by 70 chairs made by a single company. Steffen Kehrle’s redesign highlights Munich’s Die Neue Sammlung’s Thonet collection.

On the death of Florence Knoll Bassett

by Thomas Edelmann | 2/15/2019

When she died, the world lost a pioneer of Modernist furniture, one whose carefully designed rooms fired the imagination of a post-War global community who felt united in its aesthetic sensibilities. Just how fragile the foundations of this community were is something that we are experiencing today. Along with the importance of the example she set us.

For the young generation

by Fabian Peters | 8/19/2017

Matter Design and FR|SCH have designed a sophisticated architectural play structure for a place with special architectural significance.

Long overdue!

by Philipp Oswalt | 7/11/2017

He forever stood in the shadow of his predecessor Walter Gropius and his successor Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Now two key buildings by Hannes Meyer have become part of the World Cultural Heritage. “At long last!”, declares Philipp Oswalt.

MAGAZIN // ISH 2017

Bye-bye to plain vanilla

by Thomas Edelmann | 3/22/2017

Get rid of those old bulky things and bring in new design radiators – for example colorful ones with a matt finish or specially backlit.

Closing fast 01: Gropius and his Adler

by Thomas Wagner | 12/1/2015

Luxurious mobility and progressive architecture have always been a perfect match.

Shards are the chance

by Martina Metzner | 11/9/2015

Sebastian Herkner is a very sought-after designer. We accompanied him from Offenbach to Selb, where he is to boost business for Rosenthal with porcelain vases and teapots.

The dreamed-up house

by Franziska Eidner | 5/19/2014

With the Director’s Villa and the Moholy-Nagy House the ensemble of Gropius’ master houses in Dessau is complete again – and that includes a wall and the Mies van der Rohe kiosk. Repairs, reconstruction or radical reinterpretation, ghastly houses or gesamtkunstwerk, experiment or irritant?

Cuppa tea anyone?

by Martina Metzner | 3/2/2014

Following the hype about coffee, everyone is suddenly drinking tea. Which brought the teapot back into the designers’ sights. Small, plump and in the Japanese style, it was the shooting star at the Ambiente consumer goods fair in Frankfurt. We present the most stylish examples in a picture gallery.

Just plans!

by Mathias Remmele | 7/29/2010

Hardly any other metropolis has been subjected to such radical upheavals in the last century as the German capital. The exhibition "Das ungebaute Berlin" (Unbuilt Berlin) shows the projects which never saw the light of day. Who, for example, remembers Max Bill's suggestions for expanding the New National Gallery in 1981?

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