Classic designs are around for a reason. Why one piece becomes a sensation over another is always a matter of debate. In the case of Hungarian-born designer Marcel Breuer, his Wassily chair began as a ...

To paraphrase the great comic-strip possum Pogo, "We have seen chairs, and they are us." Unlike the practical table or the bland, beckoning bed, a chair is never simply a chair. Taking the shape of a ...

Every time you plop yourself down in a chair at work, rush to your favorite seat in class, or lounge at your desk at home, you can thank the Bauhaus Movement. The Bauhaus was originally a German arts ...

A miniature of a Marcel Breuer chair is part of the exhibit "The Bauhaus at 100" at Lewis & Clark College. (Courtesy of Lewis & Clark College) The sleek black-and-silver-colored Marcel Breuer chair ...

Since the 1930s, "Bauhaus" has become shorthand for a specific visual style: abstract geometry, bold sans-serif letterforms and, especially, streamlined architecture. But the Bauhaus was more than ...

When architect Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus in 1919, he had a radical idea: Art and design should be taught, and exist, hand in hand. Today, this notion is hardly revolutionary, and for that, we ...

Cults have been born from something as commonplace as a chair. Since 3,200 B.C., the time of the earliest recorded chairs in history, designers and architects have innovated and evolved the typology’s ...

Model of the Whitney Museum designed by Marcel Breuer at the Cité de l’Architecture et du Patrimoine in Paris (all photographs by the author for Hyperallergic) PARIS — “What should a museum look like, ...