The Bauhaus Ideal Then and Now

<p>Presents the history of modernist design. This book features the influence of Bauhaus on interior design on architecture, furniture, glassware, tableware and kitchen utensils.</p> <p>This unique volume introduces modern design principles and examines them from a historically critical perspective. It concludes with some ideas for melding modern solemnity with postmodern irony. And in each phase the illustrations speak as eloquently as the text&mdash;the whole serves as a beautifully illustrated design memo.</p>