Marcel Breuer, Lounge Chair B 3, second version 1926. Photo: Hartwig Klappert, Berlin, Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau

Exactly 90 years ago Weimar saw the foundation of the institution which more than any other influenced the architecture, design and art of the twentieth century.

The Bauhaus was one of the first colleges of design, and in the 14 years of its existence it brought together not just many of the most important artists, architects, designers and graphic artists of the age but also provided a blueprint for the comprehensive design and modernisation of our industrial society. At the time neither the teachers, their students nor society as a whole were able to predict with what ease and universal validity the design principles of the Bauhaus would be adapted to a range of applications worldwide. The institution itself was forced by conservative political forces to change location a number of times, moving from Weimar via Dessau to Berlin, where the Bauhaus was closed down in 1933 under political pressure of the Nazis.

Walter Gropis, 1928, Photo: Associated Press, Berlin Bauhaus Archiv

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osko+deichmann´s new interpretation of the classic Bauhaus-cantilever by Marcel Breuer

During the Salone del Mobile the Berlin based designers osko+deichmann were invited to participate in the exhibition ‘Prophets & Penitents – Confessions of a chair’ at the Oratorio della Passione at Sant’Ambrogio, Milan. Their contribution will be a homage or new interpretation of the classic Bauhaus-cantilever by Marcel Breuer.

“Until today this Holy Grail remained untouched. Now, for the 90th anniversary of the Bauhaus, the Straw Chair brings the first innovation into tubular steel furniture for over 80 years: the kinked tube.”

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