Taking advantage of my week off I went to the Bauhaus: Art as Life - which is on at the Barbican Centre until the 12th of August. The exhibition walks you through the entire life of Bauhaus 1919 to 1933, it was a child of the inter-war years founded on idealism and an ethos of community living and working. At the Bauhaus your art was your life.
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The developed standardize typography for the school.
Marcel Breuer began at the Bauhaus as a student and rose to the head of the Bauhaus' carpentry workshop. One of the most iconic chairs to come out of the school may be Breuer's Wassily Chair (1927 - 1928). The exhibit at the Barbican has his set of colorful nesting tables displayed next to Josef Albers' set, which you can see below.
To see these two takes on one idea was really interesting, it showed you how the ethos of the Bauhaus - the Josef Albers set has become a design classic.
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