thanks for joining us copycats nothing new it s just got easier in this brave new world but also easier to track down offenders thanks to your digital tech we ll get to that later in the show 1st to the valuable one offs still produced according to the original designs 100 years on furniture and household objects from the legendary bow house so sort out the that unfortunately fakes about our reporter county alaska with the next installment in our series the business of bauhaus branding the zeitgeist. it s an allstars it with a design school. isn t that when it s not just the stories and legends it became a brand the bow house was to change the world. it lives on in our product design and there s a battle over the name a. gun coming. up we got a warning letter from the bell house d.i.y.
a strong idea it s a totally different approach to designing a product for the markers that s as cheap as possible to make and has wide appeal we totally believe in what we re doing with. the bow house pioneered the use of steel pipes for home furniture in the early twentieth century steel was a material reserved for industry until muscle broyard built the first cantilever chair it remains one of the best known powerhouse chairs to this day instead of standing on four legs the supporting framework gives it the effect of being suspended in mid-air. to design a torn it says the cantilever chair accounts for around one third of its sales one hundred seventy five employees produce the chairs by hand you could pay over six hundred euros for this classic design which has become something of a legend in itself. and that one must outliers idea to use the
adventurous for their home city. they ventured on to an industrial city that welcomed the bow house with open arms and funded a completely new building for their school. the master houses were built nearby white cubic villas for the professors designed and equipped by house artists with furniture from their own workshops. director of. the city with the dollhouse movement the church and settlement offered light space and a garden for everyone is an antidote to the cramped gloomy residential blocks of the industrial cities every last detail was designed with precision and the three hundred fourteen terraced houses were built cheaply and quickly. also designed by gropius was the employment office it was one of the first of its kind with bright glass corridors. the same ascetic was used here for different purposes with coffee goes riverside cafe on the album. from the one nine hundred twenty eight its
to each his own i m a cop saw him at the nazi concentration camp and who can put. created by inmate and former boss pupil fonda elish it uses the unmistakable dollhouse typeface despite the fact of the nazi regime denounced the school for its degenerate art and even pressured its leadership into closing the ball house in berlin off its head and in the official propaganda they rejected the bow house entirely it was considered to be bolshevist jewish monks has done everything the nazis deemed negative in banking business and auditing is most often what an officially that stance wasn t as clear the nazi saw the typical baal house functionality as a sign of progress and welcomed its new objectivity. and the artists how did the often guard of the bauhaus respond after nine hundred thirty three. to take have a one of the most influential boss teachers he create
unemployment agency. in one thousand nine hundred twenty eight he was succeeded by harness maya as powerhouse director he oversaw the construction of dust sounds five houses with balcony access for low income residents people s needs over luxury mansions but in one nine hundred thirty two the nazis drove the bow house out of debt sell its last director meese fund or oversaw the move to berlin there it was shut down by the nazis again bellhousing germany was gone but not forgotten. people had to wait until after world war two to see former bow house architects bring their ideas back to germany not far from the famous bottom up plant you ll find another bauhaus related construction site the no you re not. built in one thousand nine hundred sixty eight but ninety nine. by the last director new fund