Traces of the Bauhaus, a design exhibition in Mexico.
Mexico, July 7 .- The footprints left in modern furniture design the former Bauhaus school in Germany are shown today in the Federal District in an exhibition dedicated to one of his outstanding students, Michael Van Beuren (1911-2004).
"Traces of the Bauhaus: Van Beuren. Mexico" brings together 110 pieces, including high-design furniture series produced by Van Beuren, who is credited with the introduction of, GW2 gold, new trends in aesthetics movable in Mexico after the Revolution of (1910-1917).
These pieces marked for the new post-revolutionary Mexican middle class a new period, in which the German motto "form follows function" defined the taste for practical, economical and simple.
"The proposal of Van Beuren achievement define a new era of design in Mexico and that, sto credits, a style awakened the desire of Mexicans to leave behind the European tradition and want to emphasize what its function will be useful, economical and aesthetically beautiful" said the charge of the sample, Ana Elena Mallet.
This may be accessed from morning until 5 September at the Museo Franz Mayer in Mexico City.
Through four thematic nuclei is, ffxiv gil, an account from 1932 to 1973, years in which Beuren furniture design and develop mainly in Mexico.
The pieces are scattered in the nuclei "The years of the Bauhaus", "Coming to Mexico", "Domus: the first designs and Mexico to the world" and "a modern home furniture."
The exhibit contains photographs, sketches, drawings, documents, newspaper clippings, maps and about 60 furniture such as chairs, tables, bedrooms, dining rooms and desks.
Photography emphasizes the so-called "Alacran" cabinet on the Beuren and colleagues Klaus Morley Record and Webb won the award "Organic Design for Home Furnishing" in New York.
The "Alacran" sold in the large and famous department stores Bloomingdale's and still continues to be produced.
The first section presents Beuren designs created between 1932 and 1933 and workbooks to use during their study period at the Bauhaus, while the second and third contain documents, sketches and designs created during your stay in Mexico.
The fourth shows a modern home furniture lines belonging to the "Danish", "Pine" and "Spring."
"The simplicity and adaptability to the spaces where each piece has made them matter of desire, but above all, functional and tastefully placed in almost all Mexican households," assure Mallet.
Van Beuren, designer and architect of the generation of 1934 in the old German school of design, art and architecture Bauhaus, which was closed in 1933 by the Nazi-party came to Mexico in 1937 and got his first job building and designing the interiors of the bungalows of the famous Hotel Flamingos on the beaches of Acapulco.
Some time later, a number of design houses in Mexico City and partnered with one of his colleagues at the Bauhaus, the German Klaus Grabe, who created a small company called Record and Van Beuren which was subsequently replaced by Domus, the first and best known brand.
The designer died in the city of Cuernavaca in central Mexico at 93 years. hl / gt / mop