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Furniture should work, say the men who made chairs impossible to sit in comfortably.
means A highly influential German school of design (1919–1933) that championed clean lines, function over ornament, and the marriage of art, craft, and industrial production.
from Named by founder Walter Gropius from German 'Bau' (building/construction) plus 'Haus' (house), literally 'building-house' — a deliberate echo of the old medieval 'Bauhütte,' the guild lodges where stonemasons and craftsmen trained together on cathedral sites. Gropius wanted that same spirit of craft and collective building, reborn for the industrial age; the school's teachers then spent a decade designing tubular-steel chairs that photograph beautifully and, by many accounts, punish the human lower back.
- founded
- 1919 Weimar, Germany, by Walter Gropius
- closed by
- Nazis in 1933, deemed too radical
- core idea
- form follows function, ornament is crime
- legacy
- every minimalist IKEA shelf owes it rent