The Bauhaus Ideal Then and Now: An Illustrated Guide to by William Smock

By William Smock

The Bauhaus perfect is either an image booklet and a guidebook to the interesting and enduring legacy of modernist layout, and to the continued effect of Bauhaus on inside design—not simply on structure, but additionally on furnishings, glassware, tableware, and kitchen utensils: the full variety of household arts.

This targeted quantity introduces sleek layout rules and examines them from an traditionally severe viewpoint. It concludes with a few rules for melding sleek solemnity with postmodern irony. And in every one section the illustrations communicate as eloquently because the text—the complete serves as a superbly illustrated layout memo.

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What Comes Next? 47 The successful Gehry did not stop having unconventional ideas—he advised AOL Time Warner to strip the walls off a historic Times Square skyscraper and wrap the frame in chain link fencing. But paying clients wanted a trademark building with a tilting, screwy façade. 1 The client specified a building like the Sydney Opera House (which in turn has a lot in common with another sculptured landmark, Le Corbusier’s Ronchamp chapel). Gehry can’t take all the credit for the building’s showy appeal.

Stainless steel flatware replaced heirloom silver. Lamps came to look like streetlights, not like vases. Goodbye to cut glass, lace, and heavy drapes on windows. Goodbye to mahogany dining room furniture and glass-fronted cabinets full of heirloom china. Cars stopped mimicking carriages and started trying to look like airplanes. Things with soft, anatomical associations were redefined in hard-edged ways. ” Food and clothing that came readymade from a factory began to look more appealing than the handmade variety.

How Did Modern Design Change the World? Handmade things yielded pride of place to machine-made things. “Good” and “fancy” were no longer synonymous. Stainless steel flatware replaced heirloom silver. Lamps came to look like streetlights, not like vases. Goodbye to cut glass, lace, and heavy drapes on windows. Goodbye to mahogany dining room furniture and glass-fronted cabinets full of heirloom china. Cars stopped mimicking carriages and started trying to look like airplanes. Things with soft, anatomical associations were redefined in hard-edged ways.

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