Timeless Bauhaus Furniture At Livingroom24

PRLog (Press Release) - Jan 22, 2008 -
The masters of Bauhaus knew how we should live. Art and design would rationalise space, unclutter the environment, revolutionise the homes of the workers. Everything would fit, correlate and fold away. Light would enter, surfaces would shine and the mind would be free for progress. Architect Marcel Breuer even dreamed of eliminating the impediment of furniture altogether. Henceforth, weary Germans would return home and sit themselves down on columns of rising air.
Livingroom24 is the UK’s leading virtual department store for Modern Classic and Contemporary furniture, specialising in furniture from the "bauhaus classics" époque and offering products of timeless elegance and beauty.

A principle of the Bauhaus was to serve the development of contemporary housing, from the most basic household equipment to the complete house. Technology was key for the Modernists. Followers of the Bauhaus School saw the machine as an extension of the hand. In fact, even though the early Bauhaus furniture was hand made, it was designed to suggest industrial production. Le Corbusier's ultimate aim was to allow man, machine and nature to co-exist in a state of equilibrium. The result was a kind of machine-age-classicism, where "the house is a machine for living" and "the chair is a machine for sitting in". Marcel Breuer is truly the pioneer in finding new ways to produce furniture. It is said, that he got the idea of making tubular metal furniture from the handle bar of his bicycle. For him tubular steel with leather or fabric were as comfortable as good upholstered furniture, but lighter, cheaper, less bulky and more hygienic. The idea behind this new aesthetics was to built cheap and beautiful homes, were the cool and durable materials of the furniture would create a new type of beauty.

Today, that style lives on at livingroom24 with an extensive range of modern classic furniture for the home. Bauhaus furniture from Livingroom24 creates an artful statement of who you are. You will find some of the most famous designers, such as, Le Corbusier, Eileen Gray, Eames Charles, Marcel Breuer and many others online at the virtual department store. Although it’s not possible to purchase the designers originals, since only a very few examples were produced during the


period and can only now be found in museums, modern production techniques and technologies allow manufacturers to produce furniture of an even better quality. During the 1920’s the Bauhaus designers had many ideas which never left the drawing board since technology hadn’t developed far enough.

Discover more modern classics at www.livingroom24.com

Editor’s Note: Livingroom24 is represented by online advertising consultancy, Top Position. Please direct all press queries to Billy Howe. Email: Billy@topposition.co.uk or call: 0800 094 9001.