Walter Gropius

Islamic museum: where tradition meets modernity

Museum of Islamic Art: The perforated metal chandelier in the atrium,  incorporating motifs inspired by Islamic metalwork. PICTURES: David Gillespie By Fran Gillespie A PANEL discussion on â€کIslamic Art and Architecture...

Le Corbusier: A Life

From acclaimed biographer and cultural historian, author of Balthus and Patron Saints_the first full-scale life of le Corbusier, one of the most influential, admired, and maligned architects of the twentieth century, heralded...

Gilbert Rohde's Modern & Art Deco Furniture

Bahaus Inspired Designs Saved a Company, Influenced an Industry Rohde's successful career included designs for Herman Miller, Heywood-Wakefield, and John Widdicomb that collectors still love more than sixty years later. Gilbert...

Bauhaus Archiv opens Amerika 1928 ~ Photos of a Study Trip by Walter Gropius

BERLIN.- "Gropius praises efficiency here" runs the headline in the New York Times on May 27, 1928. The article relates that the architect Walter Gropius had been in America for several weeks to study the more efficient and...

Mrs Mahler - may I take my jacket off?

Alma Mahler (above) - the beautiful wife of composer Gustav, whose affairs with the painters Klimt and Kokoschka, and the architect Walter Gropius, were legendary - once invited him to play in her house. "It was extremely hot,...

No jacket required: Menahem Pressler survived the holocaust to become a brilliant pianist

If he wanted lessons in how to take it easy during his twilight years, Menahem Pressler would need to look no further than his own circle of friends. "Many of them sit in front of the television set all day. A friend of mine...

Isokon Plus rebuilds design presence with Skandium tie-up

Source: Design Week | Published: 06 November 2008 00:00 Traditional British furniture manufacturer Isokon Plus is thought to be looking to re-establish its contemporary design programme, aided by a new distribution stream....