People's apartment
The people's apartment was a concept of a model apartment with two rooms, designed from 1928 to 1930 at the State Bauhaus , which was equipped with inexpensive and space-saving furniture and fixtures from the Bauhaus. The design came from the then director Hannes Meyer .
description
The concept of a people's apartment was a central task of the Bauhaus in Hannes Meyer's two-year directorship. It corresponded to the guiding principle of the time “People's needs instead of luxury needs” at the Bauhaus Dessau . This should give broad sections of the population access to the ideas of the Bauhaus. The focus on the people's apartment corresponded to the radical change of course under Meyer towards unconditional usefulness, reduction to a minimum of material use and maximum flexibility.
The furniture for the people's apartment was designed and built by the furniture workshop at the Bauhaus . These included the ti 245 stool and the ti 207 table , an armchair by Wera Meyer-Waldeck and a foldable armchair made of molded plywood by Josef Albers . Many pieces of furniture had a high mobility because they could be folded, collapsed or dismantled. They are an expression of maximum economy in form, construction and material. The designed furniture was standard products that could have gone into production. In contrast to the Bauhaus fabrics and the Bauhaus wallpapers , they did not meet with a great response and only a few objects were furnished with them, including the federal school of the General German Trade Union Federation in Bernau near Berlin .
So-called people's apartments were implemented in 1929 and 1930 with the portico houses Dessau-Törten built by Hannes Meyer . The 48 m² apartments were intended for families of four workers and small employees.
literature
- Magdalena Droste: finishing workshop - carpentry in: bauhaus 1919–1933 , Cologne, 2019, pp. 279–280
Web links
- Image of the bedroom of a people's apartment at bauhaus100.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ Build collectively. Hannes Meyer at the Bauhaus Dessau in bauwelt 25.2015
- ↑ Helmut Rohm: Meyer's furniture for the people's apartment in Volksstimme from June 13, 2015
- ↑ The people's apartment concept at bm-online.de