On the beam: the making of New Tendency and Wagner's bar stool

Germany’s tangled 20th-century history is reflected in its multiple sites of memory and heritage – including that of the revered Bauhaus design school. In Dessau-Roßlau, in Saxony-Anhalt, is the Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. It was founded post-reunification and is housed in the rebuilt, Gropius-designed iconic modernist building that bears the school’s famous typography on the outside wall. The foundation undertakes design education, as well as researching and conserving the Bauhaus tradition.

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