the industry hundred years ago house dispensed of unnecessary fruits with its radical vision volta gropius wanted to rethink architecture in the arts with artists such as best we can do. at luna on finding a he found of the state house in weimar nine hundred nineteen. their arts college soon became an avant garde. in their workshops we experimented with materials and form. creating design which was unprecedented in its clarity and functionality. but it didn't appeal to everyone the first show home in weimar was seen as a provocation and met with heavy criticism a bunch of free spirited individuals who held nothing sacred not color materials nor perception. breaking conventions they explored new lifestyles which were rather too wild for weimar by nine hundred twenty five it was all over they were too adventurous for their home city. they ventured on a desert and industrial city that welcomed the bow house with open arms and funded a completely new building for their school. the master houses were built nearby white cubic villas for the professors designed and equip a doll house artists with

also designed by gropius was the employment office it was one of the first of its kind with bright glass corridors. the same a static was used here for different purposes with coffee goes riverside cafe on the album. from one thousand nine hundred twenty eight its new director harnessed maya made the bow house even more political and radical his houses were an attempt to mix social classes based on need and not luxury. funding ended when the nazis came to power in the powerhouse close in one thousand thirty to one last privately funded attempt came from miss fonda and barry lynn but it failed in one thousand thirty three the boss had shut down. it is about house history have its ideas run a course hardly in these times of our people people are rediscovering its visionary potential how was about house continuing to inspire today we visit weimar where it began. constantine bya is used to having breakfast in his own gallery it's just like one big family the found as an artist of the gallery i can hire all graduates of the legendary bauhaus university their contribution to the hundredth anni

this is vulture gropius is director's chair from the one nine hundred twenty two twenty three. and here's its twenty eighteen reinterpretation. this is a friend of the table from one nine hundred twenty four. and here's the twenty eighteen edition. about house now house presents design classics from the battle house school and a new look. these are the works of german furniture makers christiane. i did what i could do you balls we didn't want to put our house originals on a pedestal and view them as the museum pieces that they often are today while still quite the opposite we wanted to take them down from the museum pedestal and bring them back to life. and that's by that's our goal because we make furniture will come to be so we got together with going to signers to show this ball house furniture in a night light the balls. in the noise. is an expert when it comes to bauhaus furniture for over forty years his company has been reproducing classics from the one nine hundred twenty. strictly according to the original designs. one of the main principles of the bauhaus school was f

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century and is still influencing our design all over the world today but our house was founded by visor gropius in the city of volume i'm not swear a new museum has to celebrate the anniversary and includes every day bauhaus designs some of which maybe you'll recognize. together let us conceive and create the new building of the future those were the goals of our house according to their founding manifesto from nine hundred nineteen one hundred years later the city of via mar has erected a new monument to this global modernist movement the chief curator for architecture and design from new york's museum of modern art has flown over especially for the unveiling that is i think all of the shows up and on one hand you can definitely say that modern visual culture and our current visual culture is impossible to imagine without bauhaus it's become part of our d.n.a. so that we almost don't notice it anymore on the other hand and this seems even more important to me the ideas about house are still in our heads as an enduring utopia. autopia only seen the cup because it's weimar has spent twenty seven

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know they're taught nor studied they're pretty pleased he wrote a housing board and like a while to gropius he was a main figure in the german association of craftsman and the architectural collective. but he also realized his own ideas he got. here because it's. can you give me an example. of what it was going to tell its job to create housing for the masses so the idea was to build affordable worker homes so they created standardized houses. on hot potato it was a master at using small variations in extravagant colors to break up any monotony and as extravagant top people. know to me. modern architecture helped chamberlain as we know it today if you want to see another original bauhaus construction you should consider a trip to me bring brandon book and we're now about an hour's drive from here in the bauhaus second director home is my undesigned a trade union school alongside other powers buildings environment and death so it's considered a unesco world heritage site. in the late one nine hundred twenty s. . the second bounce house director and his colleague constant value set out to des

still applies today and no matter how unusual about house chair looks it still sells this one by gropius costs two thousand euros and this one by broiler costs three thousand. different way of developing furniture building from scratch based on a strong idea it's a totally different approach to designing a product for the markers that's as cheap as possible to make and has wide appeal we totally believe in what we're doing with. the bow house pioneered the use of steel pipes for home furniture in the early twentieth century steel was a material reserved for industry until muscle broyard built the first cantilever chair it remains one of the best known powerhouse chairs to this day instead of standing on four legs the supporting framework gives it the effect of being suspended in mid-air. to design a torn it says the cantilever chair accounts for around one third of its sales one hundred seventy five employees produce the chairs by hand you could pay over six hundred euros for this classic design which has become something of a legend in itself. and that one must outliers idea to use the