Word: bauhausization
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...Since the 1920s, Denmark has led the world in the design and production of furniture with beautifully clean lines that is devoid of decoration and some-times uncomfortably utilitarian. Salto calls it the "less is more" approach that was championed by the Bauhaus school of architects in Germany in the 1920s. According to Erik Krogh, a professor at the Danish School of Design, Danish furniture emerged thanks to the innovative work of Kaare Klint, a cabinetmaker who started putting Danish furniture on display at world exhibitions. "Up to my generation, we trained as cabinetmakers, and the attitude of a craftsman...
...From Bauhaus to Our House, Tom Wolfe's wiseguy polemic of 1984, Wolfe was at a loss to explain how in mid-century America--a wealthy, robust nation unscarred by war--the business elites ended up settling upon puritanical Modernism as the official style of fat and happy capitalism. Mies was a big part of the reason. He arrived in New York at age 52, with little English but with the powerful support of the Museum of Modern Art. Philip Johnson, now the gray imp of American architecture but then MOMA's architecture curator, devoted important shows to Mies...
...unsettled some continentals. Built from prefabricated modular units, it is perhaps the least homey-looking house $10 million can buy. The walls are lurid yellow and purple here, dead blue-gray there; the Ikea furniture is spare in the extreme. It is Martha Stewart's hell, a cold Bauhaus panopticon riddled with cameras...
...Street. And this year, as Target nears the opening of its 1,000th store, Graves has been joined by the doyen of design, Philippe Starck, another Alessi regular, and Target's hometown hipsters, the young design team Blu Dot. Says Dziersk: "This is the principle that began with the Bauhaus: everyone should have access to beautiful things...
...Given Mondrian's ties to El Lissitzy as well as artists of the Bauhaus, [the painting] will greatly complement our holdings in this area and provide new areas of study and research," said Peter Nisbet, Daimler-Benz curator of the Busch-Reisinger Museum...