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"It often happens that on intOndo, and also in other settings related to interior design or architecture, we encounter to the adjective "modernist". But what do you really want to say with this word? This term carries with itself a long tradition that probably dates back to the Age of Enlightenment, and that implies a rupture with the former social order. It is the same effect which, starting from a deep knowledge of the present tradition, aims at establishing a more advanced and more up-to-date ideology.
In honour of this concept we want to celebrate the centenary of one of the most modernist art schools of the last century, the Bauhaus. This design school, which has been in operation for only 14 years, has influenced artistic trends throughout Europe and, with its teachings, has drawn up guidelines for designers and architects of the 20th century, drawing the boundaries of the modern world.
German architect Walter Gropius founded the Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany, in 1919, in order to unite all forms of art including crafts and industrial arts. For him there was no difference between artist and craftsman: art must be craftsmanship and craftsmanship can notprescind from an artistic ambition. Even the distance between maestro and student was a little something in this school which broke with tradition and also gave access to the female students.
"So let's form a new corporation of craftsmen. We commit together our desire, our inventiveness, our creativity in the new construction of the future, which will be all in one form: architecture, sculpture and painting and, from millions of hands of craftsmen, will rise to the sky as a crystalline symbol of a new faith being born. - from The Manifesto and program of the State Bauhaus of Weimar 1919.
In the centenary of the foundation of the Bauhaus intOndo pays tribute to this great movement of the last century, all aimed at highlighting the will of the hand of an artist and an artisan gesture: elements found in our furniture and every day we strive to select, protect and re-propose in a modern way.
