Bauhaus Boxes

This rare German Art Deco ceramic vanity or dresser box, attributed to Martha Katzer for Majolika-Manufaktur Karlsruhe circa 1929, is a masterclass in the revolutionary spirit of the...

A brass cigarette or cigar box executed entirely of brass. It was made by an anonymous craftsman/designer in Scandinavia during the 1930s in style reminiscent of Erhard & Söhne. It f...

Candy gift packaging from Lindt & Sprüngli, Swiss Art Deco Bauhaus Era. The box is upholstered and adorned with a fine Art Deco patterned brocade fabric. Originally made for fine bon...

This exceptional German Bauhaus jewelry box, attributed to Marianne Brandt for Ruppel, embodies the constructivist design ethos with its geometric pr...

A lacquered metal and brass jewelry box in an art deco modernist style from the Bauhaus era, featuring a stylized bird perched on a branch. The box is adorned with geometrical art de...

This unique and rare find hails from a small workshop in Munich and was hand made to store little bits and pieces such as pins and screws etc. The design is very much of the Bauhaus...

Group of four "Frankfurter Küche" storage elements attributed to the Austrian architect Margarethe Schütte-Lihotzky (1897 - 2000). Bauhaus era. The ...

German geometric enameled pill box attributed to Herbert Bayer. An exceptional representative piece of the Bauhaus art movement. This box has been made in Germany during the art deco period, back in the 1923. Crafted in an squared shape with chamfer corners in solid .935/.999 sterling silver. The reverse is treated with engine turned guilloche design, topped with white translucent hot enamel. The top lid is embellished with a gorgeous art deco geometric composition, with applications of red, black, gray and white enamel. It is fitted with three barrels hinge and a thumb snap push. The interiors are treated with more engine turned guilloche and blue enamel. The Bauhaus School Of Design Bauhaus Art The Bauhaus, titled after a German phrase that means “house of construction,” was created in 1919 by architect Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany. He took over a pre-existing school of Arts and Crafts in 1915, and the revolutionary new Bauhaus art school was founded four years later via the merging of this establishment with the Weimar Academy of Fine Art. The Bauhaus style was inspired by 19th and early 20th-century creative tendencies including the Art Nouveau style and the various foreign versions like the Vienna Secession and Jugendstil, as well as the Arts and Crafts movement. All of these groups desired to blur the line between the applied and fine arts, as well as to reconnect imagination and fabrication; their heritage was represented in the romantic medievalism of the Bauhaus movement ideology during its formative days when it styled itself as some kind of craftsmen’s union. By the mid-1920s, however, this ideal had given place to a focus on integrating industrial Bauhaus graphic design and art, and it was this focus that anchored the Bauhaus’ most innovative and significant achievements. Simultaneously, the 1910s rise of Russian Constructivism provided a more urgent and aesthetically appropriate predecessor for the Bauhaus’ fusion of artistic and mechanical design. When the Bauhaus officially opened in 1920, it took up home in the old sculpture workshop of the Grand-Ducal Saxon institute, constructed in the Art Nouveau fashion. The school’s strategy was centered on its innovative and impactful curriculum. Gropius described it as a wheel with rings, with the outer circle chosen to represent the six-month preparatory course launched by Johannes Itten that focused on the foundational facets of design, particularly the differing characteristics of varied shapes, colors, and substances. (Arts In Context with thanks) Weight: 40.60 Grams, (26.03 Dwt). Measurements: 52 mm by 52 mm by 15 mm (2.05 x 2.05 x 0.59 Inches). Hallmarks: Stamped with the maker's mark, the mark for the assay of the silver and signed, "STERLING GERMANY". Herbert Bayer Vintage Bauhaus 'The 1923 Bauhaus Exhibition', Germany, Herbert Bayer, Reproduction 200gsm A3 Vintage Bauhaus Poster Herbert Bayer Bauhaus Exhibition Poster, 1923 Bayer apprenticed under the artist Georg Schmidt Hammer in Linz. Leaving the workshop to study at the Darmstadt Artists' Colony, he became interested in Walter Gropius's Bauhaus manifesto. After Bayer had studied for four years at the Bauhaus under such teachers as Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee[2] and László Moholy-Nagy, Gropius appointed Bayer director of printing and advertising. In the spirit of reductive minimalism, Bayer developed a crisp visual style and adopted use of all-lowercase, sans serif typefaces for most Bauhaus publications. Bayer is one of several typographers of the period including Kurt Schwitters and Jan Tschichold...

Storage and transport boxes made in the 1930s and used for almost a century in a textile factory. The lightweight and practical construction consists of steel wire and hard, strong paper boxes. They were designed for carrying lightweight textile products and for stacking, as the bottom section is slightly wider than the top section. They have acquired a beautiful aged patina over the years. They would make a great decoration as well as being practical. 22 items available.

Beautiful blue Lapis Lazuli and Carrara marble stone jewelry box. Created from genuine blue Lapis Lazuli, this box is low in profile and round in form. This lovely jewelry or trinket box features a lid that sits snuggly onto its base. Both of which are completely covered in this beautiful blue stone. The interior of the box's base and lid, are created using Carrara marble. The lid features stays, which retrofit into the base, and allow the top to hold to the base without sliding or moving. The exterior is flanked with the gorgeous richly-hued blue lapis lazuli stone. How we would style it: This blue stone box...

A beautiful colorful decorative box with a lid created from Carrara marble and inlaid with a variety of semi-precious stones. The sides are inlaid with a variety of stones in abstrac...

An early twentieth century brass and copper moneybox of spherical form, the brass body opening with lock and key, supported on three copper ball feet, with copper money slot to the t...