3D Design-Bauhaus

Bauhaus

Bauhaus started off as an art and design school in Germany and was shut down because of the Gestapo group, as they said that the school was too ‘un-german’.  It was one of the first Art & Design schools and their main goal was to prove that design doesn’t have to be ordinary and boring.

The Bauhaus had lots of influences on designers even after they had shut down. In 2011, Walter Isaacson’s biography even said that Steve Jobs was influenced by the Bauhaus movement when designing his products for Apple, even though it is around 80 years later. In fact, a product that Bauhaus designed-the door knob, apparently has some of the same design DNA as the iPhone 4S, which proves you can take inspiration from something and turn it into something completely different.

Marcel Breuer

Marcel Breuer studied and then worked at Bauhaus in the 1920’s, before moving on to Berlin to design houses and commercial spaces. He firstly liked to work with steel tubing, although later he went on to work with wood, and this is where his famous chair design came from.

This chair is known as the Wassily Chair and is one of Marcels most famous designs, which he designed while he was still a teacher at Bauhuas.

I like this chair because even though it was made a number of decades ago it still looks modern and like it was designed a few years ago. I also like how the fabric on it will make it comfy so it can be sat on for a while but there is a minimal amount so that the metal tubes are still the main bit, because this is what Marcel worked in mostly at this period. I also like it because it reminds me of a deck chair, which make me think of summer and summer is always a happy time, so even though it is done in black and silver and these are very cool colours the chair could still be used outside in the summer for things like barbeques

Walter Gropius

Walter Gropius started his career in the 1920’s when he became the director of Bauhaus. When he was forced out of Berlin he moved to America, only coming back to Berlin to do one last piece of work, which caused controversy again, just like Bauhaus had done.

 

 

This sofa was designed by Walter Gropius in 1920, so before he started working at Bauhaus. I really like this sofa because of how in the future it would have been when it was designed. This actually reminds me of something that would have been in ‘Back to the Future’ when they go to the future, because it seems really modern and really ahead of its time. I like the fact that people would still have this in their house now and wouldn’t think twice about it. Some people say that Walters work is really simple and that’s why they don’t like it but I don’t think this is simple at all, it isn’t just a normal everyday sofa, the arms are completely different and the colours, even though they are just black and white are very unique too.

Josef Hartwig

I like this chess set that was designed by Josef Hartwig who worked for Bauhaus because it is completely different from what I have seen before. Whenever I think of chess I think of traditional pieces that are all carved into certain shapes. I also like this because it sort of makes chess simple, because the pieces indicate the moves that the pieces can do, for example the square indicates that it can go up, down, left and right while the cross shape indicates that it can go diagonal