He studied architecture at the beginning of the twentieth century before entering the design bureau of peter behrens in 1907 along with mies van der rohe and corbusier.
Walter gropius door handles image.
Walter gropius adolf meyer.
Gift of jo carole and ronald s.
Such handles were available with various types of angular and rounded plates roses and escutcheons.
Architect designed archetypal modernist pull handle walter gropius designed this pull handle as a companion to his lever handle first put into mass production in 1923 and the most influential of all modernist door handles.
It was used by gropius in his 1925 design for the bauhaus building in dessau.
Loevy in any quantities until 1923.
2 3 8 x 7 3 4 x 6 6 x 19 7 x 15 2 cm mounted on wood base 10 x 4 3 4 x 3 3 8 25 4 x 12 1 x 8 6 cm.
This door handle and the corresponding window handle by walter gropius were almost certainly designed 1923 but not manufactured by the berlin company s a.
Henry van de velde who founded the design school in weimar that would become the bauhaus had set the ball rolling but it was the bauhaus s first director walter gropius who would design the handle that became the most complete expression of modernism in 1923.
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