From the course: Graphic Design History: The Bauhaus Movement
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The furniture workshop
From the course: Graphic Design History: The Bauhaus Movement
The furniture workshop
- [Instructor] The furniture and cabinet making workshop was one of the most popular at the Bauhaus. Under the direction of Marcel Breuer, from 1924-1928, this studio reinvented what furniture was, how is can be used, and how it was made. As in architecture, the goal was to challenge conventional forms such as chairs, and eliminate decoration and form to minimal needs. Breuer believed that chairs would become obsolete at some point in the future, when technology would allow us to sit supported by columns of air. Inspired by the steel tubing of his bicycle, he experimented with metal furniture, creating light weight metal chairs. The final goal was to mass produce these for use in all houses of the average man and woman. These chairs were used throughout the Dessau school, and in the theatre of the building. The furniture workshop stressed the ideas of modernism, truth in materials, economy of means, good design for the masses, and form follows function. The results however, often…
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