iF celebra los 100 años de la Bauhaus
Teatime with Walter Gropius: TAC 1 by Rosenthal honored by iF in 1970
2019 was the year of the Bauhaus – the worldwide most influential school of art, design and ideas celebrated its centenary. We celebrate this avant-garde movement by starting a special design dedicated Bauhaus expert series. What links Bauhaus Icons to iF? As a highlight, we will take you on a journey deep into our iF archives to find traces and names of the Bauhaus. Our first encounter is no other than Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius (1883-1969) himself – and a Teapot by German Porcelain manufacturer Rosenthal.
Architect and Avant-garde master of modernism, Walter Gropius inspired and sculpted the whole idea, aesthetics and of the Bauhaus. He attracted other architects, artists and designers for his new school in Weimar (1919), later in Dessau, which ideology and key elements outlast time and still influence our aesthetic perception every day!
We at iF are very proud to have one of his designs in the iF Design Excellence: In 1970 he sketched a teapot series TAC 1 by Rosenthal in the discipline “product”.
Un año después de la muerte de Gropius,
Rosenthal presentó su diseño para la tetera TAC 1, que fue galardonada con un if DESIGN AWARD 1970. La tetera se distingue por las formas geométricas típicamente sencillas de Gropius, que sin duda llevan a la práctica su significativa escritura arquitectónica de la Bauhaus. Esto queda claro al implicar libremente el icónico círculo y la bola como elementos definitorios y símbolos de la Bauhaus para el diseño de la serie. Típicamente para Gropius, la forma de la tetera sigue el corpus de la tetera en cada detalle.