Featuring the furniture of the Bauhaus Modern period, the beginning of the modern movement, which spans the period between 1917 and 1933. Of particular importance, Germany’s Bauhaus School fostered and defined this move toward the modern and gave rise to some of the greatest designers of all time, including Walter Gropius, Mies van der Rohe and Marcel Breuer. Though the Bauhaus school was closed down in 1933, this group of designers promoted the use of the new technologies and social ideals of the day, to defy traditional ideals of decor and created a whole new aesthetic based on form and function.
