Bauhaus Interior vs Bauhaus Product
Bauhaus Interior is the cross-discipline counterpart of Bauhaus Product — shares the tubular-steel furniture and objects.
Bauhaus Interior
The functional, machine-age interior of the German Bauhaus — open plan, white walls, tubular-steel furniture and primary-colour accents, form following function.
- Open, flexible plans with abundant natural light
- White and neutral walls free of applied ornament
- Tubular-steel, chrome and leather furniture for mass production
- Primary red, yellow and blue accents on neutral grounds
- Geometric workshop textiles and honest industrial materials
Bauhaus Product
Objects from the German Bauhaus school — lamps, tableware, and furniture reduced to elementary geometry of sphere, cylinder, and cube, designed for the machine and for mass production.
- Reduction to elementary geometric solids — sphere, cylinder, cone, cube
- Industrial materials: glass, chromed metal, tubular steel, aluminium
- Total rejection of applied ornament in favour of bare function
- Designed as standardized prototypes for machine mass production
- Primary colours and neutral tones derived from theory, not decoration
At a glance
| Bauhaus Interior | Bauhaus Product | |
|---|---|---|
| Era | 1919–1933 | 1919–1933 |
| Discipline | Interior Design | Industrial Design |
| Region | Germany | Germany |
| Family | Bauhaus, Modernism | Functionalism, Industrial Modernism |
| Formal traits | functional, geometric, minimal, industrial | geometric-primary, unornamented, industrial-materials, machine-made |
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