The Bauhaus movement changed everything. Founded in 1919, it set out to erase the line between art and everyday life. Chairs, lamps, typefaces, buildings, suddenly everything could be art. Some of the world’s greatest creators like Paul Klee, Kandinsky, László Moholy-Nagy and Marianne Brandt passed through its doors. Even Apple’s sleek design and IKEA’s flat-pack furniture trace back to Bauhaus. The Nazis tried to shut it down, calling it “degenerate.” Instead, the ideas spread worldwide, shapin

WALTER GROPIUS - Our guiding principle was that design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in a civilized society. | Bauhaus Movement

Masters’ Houses by Walter Gropius (1925) bit.ly/2x1u1Kd | Bauhaus Movement