Walter Gropius in front of a house he designed, 1927. Photo by Ullstein Bild. The Bauhaus was a German art school which opened in 1919 and ran until 1933. The school was only open for fourteen years and graduated fewer than 500 students, but it revolutionized the ways in which we thin...
Bauhaus Constructivism Futurism De Stijl Early Art Deco Art Deco history officially begins when the movement earned its name during the 1925 Exposition Internationale des Arts Decoratifs et Industriels Modernes, a world's fair held in Paris. There, the French government encouraged people to enjoy this...
Bauhaus Design History of Furniture History of Interior Design History of Textiles Start today. Try it now Types of Architecture Study Guide 13chapters |131lessons Ch 1.Revival Architecture Ch 2.Architectural Styles Brutalist Architecture | Definition, Famous Buildings & Design ...
Scandinavian design is the epitome of form-meets function. This guide examines the key characteristics and styling tips to bring the look to life at home.
Art Deco is a style of visual arts, architecture, and product design that first appeared in France in the 1910s and became popular in the 1920s and 1930s. Influenced by Art Nouveau, the Bauhaus, Cubism, and Serge Diaghilev’s Ballets Russes, the style was characterised by its simple and...
There has been a consistent, ongoing interest in the style since the 1960s. The mid-century modern design, which revives the pure simplicity of the Bauhaus and continues forth the Deco aesthetic’s streamlined style, has echoes of Art Deco. The Memphis Group, a design and architectural movemen...
design included the earlier Art Nouveau masters Theophile Steinlen and Eugene Grasset (1845-1917), Emil Cardinaux (famous for his 1908 Matterhorn travel poster), as well as a younger group of Swiss designers - influenced by the imagery of Constructivism, De Stijl and the Bauhaus Design School....
Important architects in the history and development of the modernist movement in America, included a number of refugees from Europe, such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969), Walter Gropius (1883-1969) the former director of the Bauhaus Design School, and Louis Kahn (1901-74). Other ...
The Bauhaus approach to production was distinctly modern, emphasizing the mass producibility of objects through an economic use of material, and advocating for simple design in which form is based on function. For Gropius and the Bauhaus professors, art was found in the design of an object or ...
Most of the outstanding Art Deco creators designed individually crafted or limited-edition items. They included the furniture designers Jacques Ruhlmann and Maurice Dufrène; the architectEliel Saarinen; metalsmith Jean Puiforcat; glass and jewelry designerRené Lalique; fashion designerErté; artist-jewelers...