In 2019, the Bauhaus, the most influential school of 20th-century modern design, will celebrate the 100th anniversary of its founding by Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany. It’s an institution with a ...

No art movement in history has impacted the world of products quite like the Bauhaus. Founded in 1919 by the architect Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany, the school’s original manifesto proposed a ...

The Bauhaus style is characterized by a combination of art and function, is a style that focuses on function and the comfort of everyday life but with an artistic twist. There are many unique and ...

CAMBRIDGE — “Less is more, ” Mies van der Rohe, he of the towering, steel-ribbed black-glass boxes, once famously proclaimed, though no one seems to have told Harvard Art Museums. Mies, a seminal ...

Dane Austin's signature aesthetic is rooted in the Art Deco movement and French design from the ‘30s and ‘40s—“but as an artist, I feel like I go through phases,” he says. “I don’t want to be bored by ...

Mention “Bauhaus” at a cocktail party and you’re likely to conjure visions of chrome-plated tubular steel chairs, charming teapots or a certain ubiquitous sans serif typeface. For others, the word ...

1. Elective Affinities: England and Germany -- 2. 'A simpler and more cordial accent': Walter Gropius -- 3. T̀he habitability of the whole': Marcel Breuer -- 4. T̀hat lovely madman': Laszlo ...

The humble shoe, literally our lowest item of clothing, must fit us perfectly. Our body protests loudly if it does not. Still, it is taking perfectionism to the extreme to insist that the buildings of ...

The sleek smartphone you may be holding in your hand. The elegant tubular metal chair you’d love to buy but can’t afford. The glass-sheathed building you admire or despise. All these things reflect ...