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Michaela Mildenhall, otherwise known as Pargy, is the author of the blog which hunts down the best in bold and daring design from the past and present.
B
e prepared to be seduced by bold
- who see “Pattern Everywhere”, and the
geometric shapes and bright colours.
creator of the Bauhaus birdfeeder (yes
Get out those Kandinsky and Klee
that’s right, even your common House
posters. That’s right, Bauhaus style is
Martin can reside in Bauhaus style), Julia
massive in interiors right now, and it’s young,
Jacobs.
cool, British and very modern darling!
For those who wanna be in the know,
lather regarding all things Bauhaus due to
the main components of this uber-trend are
the exhibition being held at the Barbican
the circle, the triangle and the cube - along
Art Gallery this summer. The original
with lots of flat, but vibrant colour. There
movement was German, but it wasn’t some
are some fabulous young Brit Designers that
dusty old Art “ism”, but in fact an Art and
are rocking this modernistic look right now:
Design school set up by the architect Walter
Fashion and prop designer (and the creator
Gropius in 1919, and initially funded by the
of THAT Lady GaGa telephone headpiece),
Weimar Government. Basically it started
Fred Butler; the inspiring Patternity Girls
out by being what we might call “a bit of an
Of course we are all getting in a bit of a
experiment”. It was shut down by the Nazis Wassily Lounge Chair by Marcel Breuer
in 1933.
What is especially exciting for many
designers about this school is its unique way of paying equal attention to art, architecture, design and craft; it combined these disciplines to create a unified vision for a modern way of living. The Bauhaus had some very cutting-edge tutors too, such as the German Expressionist Artists Wassily Kandinsky and Paul Klee; the now famous colour theorist and painter of the “Homage to the Square” series, Josef Albers; and of course, designer of exquisite furniture, Marcel Breuer.
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