Design
fromwww.nytimes.com
1 day agoThe 10 Most Important Chairs
Thonet's company pioneered mass-produced chairs, selling 50 million between 1859 and 1930, influencing modern furniture design and assembly methods.
Gropius, who from 1919 to 1928 directed the Bauhaus in Weimar and Dessau, designed the house in 1921-22 for lawyer Fritz Otte. The property is considered a dramatic evolution of Gropius's earlier seminal Haus Sommerfeld, which was also located in Berlin, but destroyed in World War II. The Bauhaus founder embraced a forward-looking approach with an unadorned, sharp-edged structure that rejected the heaviness of 19th-century historicism.