Bauhaus Furniture

The Bauhaus was a progressive German art and design school founded by the architect Walter Gropius that operated from 1919 to 1933. The name Bauhaus is derived from the German verb bauen, “to build.” Under the school’s innovative curriculum, students were taught the fine arts, such as painting and sculpture, as well as practical skills like carpentry and metalworking. The goal of the Bauhaus was to erase the distinction between art and craft, while embracing the use of new technologies and materials.
The school moved from Weimar in 1925 to the city of Dessau, where it enjoyed its heyday under Gropius, then Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. The period from 1932 to 1933 when it operated in Berlin under Mies was its final chapter. Despite its brief existence, the Bauhaus has had an enduring influence on art and design, and is regarded by many as the 20th century’s chief crucible of modernism. The faculty roster reads like a who’s who of modernist creative genius, and included such artists as Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky and László Moholy-Nagy along with architects and designers like Mies and Marcel Breuer.
Bauhaus design style reflects the tenets by which these creators worked: simplicity, clarity and function. They disdained superfluous ornament in favor of precise construction. The furniture of the Bauhaus and its followers married industrial and natural materials in simple, geometric forms. Seating pieces were made with tubular metal or molded plywood frames, and upholstered with leather or cane. Above all, as you can discern on 1stDibs, designs in the Bauhaus style offer aesthetic flexibility. They can be the elements of a wholly spare, minimalist space, the quiet foundation of an environment in which color and pattern come from one’s own collection of art and artifacts.
2010s Mexican Bauhaus Furniture
Wood, Hardwood, Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Bauhaus Furniture
Brass
2010s Danish Bauhaus Furniture
Aluminum
2010s Mexican Bauhaus Furniture
Metal, Brass
2010s Danish Bauhaus Furniture
Oak, Leather
2010s Danish Bauhaus Furniture
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Bauhaus Furniture
Brass
1930s German Vintage Bauhaus Furniture
Opaline Glass
1930s Czech Vintage Bauhaus Furniture
Steel, Chrome
1930s German Vintage Bauhaus Furniture
Papercord, Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Russian Bauhaus Furniture
Plywood
21st Century and Contemporary Russian Bauhaus Furniture
Plywood
Late 20th Century American Bauhaus Furniture
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Bauhaus Furniture
Marble, Brass
1970s German Vintage Bauhaus Furniture
Chrome
1980s French Vintage Bauhaus Furniture
Metal, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Ghanaian Bauhaus Furniture
Cotton
1930s Czech Vintage Bauhaus Furniture
Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Ghanaian Bauhaus Furniture
Cotton
1940s Czech Vintage Bauhaus Furniture
Steel, Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Bauhaus Furniture
Brass
1940s Czech Vintage Bauhaus Furniture
Chrome
1950s American Vintage Bauhaus Furniture
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary French Bauhaus Furniture
Lava, Travertine
1970s German Vintage Bauhaus Furniture
Metal
1950s German Vintage Bauhaus Furniture
Metal, Aluminum, Iron
2010s American Bauhaus Furniture
Brass
1940s Czech Vintage Bauhaus Furniture
Chrome
2010s American Bauhaus Furniture
Brass
1930s German Vintage Bauhaus Furniture
Iron
1920s Czech Vintage Bauhaus Furniture
Brass
1930s European Vintage Bauhaus Furniture
Steel, Chrome
1920s Dutch Vintage Bauhaus Furniture
Brass
1920s Czech Vintage Bauhaus Furniture
Nickel
21st Century and Contemporary Moroccan Bauhaus Furniture
Wool
1930s German Vintage Bauhaus Furniture
Beech
1930s Austrian Vintage Bauhaus Furniture
Bentwood
1940s Scandinavian Vintage Bauhaus Furniture
Steel, Chrome
1930s Austrian Vintage Bauhaus Furniture
Steel
1920s German Vintage Bauhaus Furniture
Leather
1930s German Vintage Bauhaus Furniture
Steel, Chrome
2010s English Bauhaus Furniture
Oak
1930s German Vintage Bauhaus Furniture
Metal
1920s Czech Vintage Bauhaus Furniture
Chrome
20th Century English Bauhaus Furniture
Brass
Mid-20th Century Moroccan Bauhaus Furniture
Wool
1920s French Vintage Bauhaus Furniture
Nickel
1930s German Vintage Bauhaus Furniture
Wood
1930s Vintage Bauhaus Furniture
Steel
1930s Czech Vintage Bauhaus Furniture
Opaline Glass, Bakelite
1930s Czech Vintage Bauhaus Furniture
Chrome
1970s German Vintage Bauhaus Furniture
Steel, Chrome
20th Century Czech Bauhaus Furniture
Chrome
1930s Czech Vintage Bauhaus Furniture
Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Bauhaus Furniture
Marble
1930s German Vintage Bauhaus Furniture
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Bauhaus Furniture
Brass
1930s Vintage Bauhaus Furniture
Metal
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