Inspired by Bauhaus

Celebrate the Bauhaus centenary and Cooper Hewitt's exhibition Herbert Bayer: Bauhaus Master on view through November 8, 2020, with original reproductions and new designs inspired by the school's teachings.

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Stölzl Wrap, Orchard one of four variations based on the blanket designed by Gunta Stölzl for the Bauhaus ‘Prellerhaus’ student dormitories showing a bold interaction of horizontal and vertical, positive and negative stripes and blocks of color.

Stölzl Wrap, Orchard

Seal Stölzl Wrap, displayed on a white background as though wrapped around an imaginary neck, features a bold interaction of vertical and horizontal bands of black, navy, red, gray, peach and cream.

Stölzl Wrap, Seal

Bauhaus Chess Set

Bauhaus Chess Set

Book cover with an orange band across the top with the title in yellow lowercase serif font. Below is a black and white photo of two women leaning on to each other, looking off to the side, cropped at their shoulders.

Gray book cover with a photograph of furniture production and two colorful diagrammatic illustrations. Title in white sans serif letters rotated ninety degrees to the left stacked across the width of the cover and also in smaller letters on top

The Bauhaus: #itsalldesign

Book cover with black and white photograph of a figure whose back is to us but twisting their head back to us. The figure is wearing a dark lip shade and a lacy dark veil. Title in orange and black font to the left

Haunted Bauhaus: Occult Spirituality, Gender Fluidity, Queer Identities, and Radical Politics

Black book cover with white lines forming intricate angles and geometries under a bold sans serif title in white

Bauhaus Futures

Bauhaus 100: Sites of Modernism

Bauhaus 100: Sites of Modernism

Book cover with graphic illustration of black disc partially covered with a form showing colorful concentric rings. Title near bottom in bold orange san serif font

Bauhaus 1919-1933

Light colored wooden blocks in a variety of heights standing up against a white background. The blocks are either rectangular with a top end that is rounded on the left and pointed on the right, or small and triangular with one rounded edge.

Bauhaus Archiblocks

Quarter view of a round, shiny, metal bowl that is slightly more shallow than half of a sphere, with a convex center and thin walls.

Marianne Brandt Tall Basket

Side view of a shiny metal sugar and creamer set. A tall creamer with a handle and a lip around the rim, and a shorter, slightly wider sugar bowl, both with rounded bases, sit on a round, shallow dish. Short metal tongs with slightly rounded sides rest in front of the dish.

Marianne Brandt, Helmut Shulze Sugar and Cream Set

Quarter view of a circular, shiny, metal vessel that is very shallow with a convex center and thin walls.

Marianne Brandt Shallow Basket

Black book cover with a central figure whose form and costume are rendered in colorful geometric shapes. Book title curves around figure in sans-serif font

Plastic sleeve with red field in upper right corner showing title as negative space. Inside are several folded papers and booklets

Bauhaus Journal 1926-1931

White book cover with title in light gray field at top in a black sans serif font with extra space between letters. Brown chair components laid out at the bottom

Craft Becomes Modern: The Bauhaus in the Making

White book cover with black square askew and a smaller white and red cube inside. Title in black sans serif font slanted with the square

Walter Gropius: International Architecture

A blanket with a dark multi-colored geometric motif

Bauhaused 1 Blanket

Beige book cover with a red square bisected with a yellow triangle surrounded by a blue circle

The ABC's of Triangle, Square, Circle: The Bauhaus and Design Theory

Yellow book cover with title in hollow stenciled modern font

Design Rehearsals: Conversations about Bauhaus Lessons

White book cover with giant san serif A surrounded by smaller title and author information. Alphabet lines right side of cover

Moholy-Nagy and the New Typography

White book cover featuring a white chair. Both the cover and the chair are covered in handwritten words

Can Design Change Society?

Book cover with sepia toned early twentieth century photograph of a urban center with cafe patrons trees public transportation and buildings. Title in red font in black horizontal band near center

Weimar Germany: Promise and Tragedy

White book cover with various sized circle pies in yellow and turquoise and title in black text.

Painted Diagrams: Bauhaus, Art, and Infographics

Cream colored cover with title in bold black print.

Original Bauhaus Catalogue

Basketweave of pink, red, yellow, black and white vertical stripes on a flat woven field of subtle pink and white stripes, with a round, melon-colored dessert plate in the upper left corner.

Heddle Placemat in Pansy

Basketweave of gray, white and black vertical stripes on a flat woven field of subtle gray and white stripes, with a round, medium gray colored dessert plate in the upper left corner.

Heddle Placemat in Shadow

Blakeney Scarf in blue, gray, rust, brown and pale green stripes combines crisp, papery linen in the weft with a striped, silk warp.

A slide show of the seven Furrow Wool Scarf types on a white background displayed as though casually worn about the neck. Interchanging pinstripe structures run throughout the length of the scarf and create a wonderful linear patterns with contrasting stripes at either end.

Furrow Wool Scarf

A slide show of the six Glebe Wool Scarf types, double sided, with defined aysmetical stripes, blocks of color, and zig-zagging twills. Shown loosely knotted on a white background, as though ready to be worn.

Glebe Wool Scarf

Heacham Silk Linen Scarf displayed on a white background as though casually draped around an imaginary neck in creamy rose, teal, aqua pink, maroon and peach tones woven in a crisp linen weft with a striped, silk warp.

A slide show of individual Wallace Sewell Silk Ties, showing each one’s unique combination of bright, bold colors in an asymmetrical pattern of stripes and checks.

Wallace Sewell Tie

Penfold Wool Wrap woven with fine wool, with asymmetric double-cloth blocks of color and pattern.

Penfold Wool Wrap

Black book cover featuring a blue circle, red triangle, and yellow square in a horizontal row. Overlaid in silver, the outline of an iPhone contains centered title text.

iBauhaus: The iPhone as the Embodiment of Bauhaus Ideas and Design

Book cover featuring a close up, ghostly double exposure image of two children; the image is in black and white with a green filter overlay. Of the two children, one is lying faced up with their eyes slightly open, and a bright light shinning upon their face, the other child lies beside the other with their eyes closed and head faced toward the book viewer. There is a narrow red trimming along the left edge of the book, and in yellow text towards the lower left is the book title.

Bauhaus Bodies: Gender, Sexuality, and Body Culture in Modernism's Legendary Art School

Book cover features a graphic collage designed from three black and white photography and blue, yellow, white, and red rectangular elements. Images from the top left: glass window; group portrait of three women and men; female figure captured motion. The title featured in Bowfin font in black bold.

Bauhaus Women: A Global Perspective