Bauhaus vs Bauhaus Product
Bauhaus Product is the cross-discipline counterpart of Bauhaus — the product workshops of the same Bauhaus school.
Bauhaus
The German school that fused art, craft, and industry into a functional modernism — clean geometry, flat roofs, and 'form follows function' applied to the whole designed world.
- Rejection of applied ornament; function expressed as form
- Clean rectilinear geometry and flat roofs
- Glass curtain walls and ribbon windows
- Honest, industrial materials
- Unity of art, craft, and mass production
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 | Bauhaus Product | |
|---|---|---|
| Era | 1919–1933 | 1919–1933 |
| Discipline | Architecture | Industrial Design |
| Region | Germany | Germany |
| Family | Modernism | Functionalism, Industrial Modernism |
| Formal traits | geometric, minimal, functional, unornamented | geometric-primary, unornamented, industrial-materials, machine-made |
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