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Indepth Arts News:
"A Century of Design, Part II: 1925–1950"
2000-05-09 until 2000-10-29
Metropolitan Museum of Art
New York, NY,
USA United States of America
This is the second in a four-part series of exhibitions surveying design in the 20th
century through the presentation of significant objects in all media by major European
modernist designers, drawn from the Museum's collection. While the luxurious and
sensual aesthetic of Art Deco reigned in France during the late 1920s and 1930s,
avant-garde German design of the same period presented an ethical and polemical
antithesis.
Bauhaus designers such as Marianne Brandt, Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies
van der Rohe, and Wilhelm Wagenfeld explored the possibilities of functionalism, mass
production, and industrial materials. Though enormously influential, the severity of
their uncompromising work was soon challenged by the softer lines and natural
materials of Scandinavian design from the 1930s by such designers as Alvar Aalto and
Bruno Mathsson.
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