FORM MEETS DYSFUNCTION

The Bauhaus movement started because someone refused to decorate a chair. Minimalism is just aesthetic stubbornness.

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The Bauhaus school was founded by Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany, in 1919, aiming to unite art, craft and technology. Its functional style grew from that philosophy, not from a refusal to decorate one chair.

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