furniture

]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.

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