ct and taste who knew how to make an object or building fit for its purpose and yet right for the eye. ]next[ Bauhausfurniture ]g a l l e r y[ Bauhaus furniture design was based on the premise that it was necessary to develop new and radically different forms for the pieces of furniture that were to be accepted as the basis of the modern home. Traditional furniture types -the heavy armchair, the mahogany armoire and the bourgeois love of ornamentation were rejected. The functionalist approach was enthusiastically embraced by the carpentry workshop, as was Gropius's belief that peoples needs were largely identical. It was therefore the workshops task to provide for those needs in the most definitive and economic way. Given the shortage of housing space in and the mid 1920s fashion for health and hygiene, the goal was to create lightweight, adaptable, multi-purpose furniture in clean, hard materials, soft upholstery was thought to harbour dust and mites. ]next[ Bauhausfurniture Peter Bucking used wood for this lightweight collapsable armchair in 1928. This chair epitomises the Bauhaus aesthetic lightweight, low cost adaptable furniture for the workers housing for which it was premium. The advantage of this chair was that it could be stored and not seen, avoiding the whole aspect of clutter and maximising the use of household space. ]previous[ ]next[ Bauhausfurniture When Hannes Meyer became director in 1928, and Breuer was succeeded as leader of the furniture workshop first by Josef Albers and then by Alfred Arndt, the workshops priorities were realigned. The aim was now to create low-cost multi-purpose, standard furniture. A number of ingenious folding or adjustable work chairs were designed, often using tubular steel and plywood in conjunction. Alfred Arndts chair 1929-30 which is sometimes attributed to Breuer, folds completely flat so that it can fold up against a wall....
