Definitive proof nobody did costume parties like the Bauhaus
Legendary Editor's Note: This post was originally published in October 2014 and has been updated with the most recent information.
Most people attribute Germany's Bauhaus school with the following: being on the vanguard of minimalist design, the paring down of architecture to its most essential and non-ornamental elements, and the radical idea that useful objects could also be beautiful. What may be overlooked is the fact that the rigorous design school, founded by modernism's grandsire Walter Gropius, also put on marvelous costume parties back in the 1920s. If you thought Bauhaus folk were good at designing coffee tables, just have a look at their costumes?as bewitching and sculptural as any other student project, but with an amazing flamboyance not oft ascribed to the movement. These Bauhaus shindigs were nothing like typical Halloween parties, where everyone expects to find a few topical doppelgängers. Back in Weimar, competition among the creatives was fierce: Students and teachers like artists Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Piet Mondian, László Moholy-Nagy, architect Mies van der Rohe, and furniture designer Marcel Breuer all tried to out-do one another by designing uniquely fantastical creations.
According to Farkas Molnár, the late Hungarian architect who was a Bauhaus student in the early '20s, the school's renowned typography studios and cabinet-making workshops were taken very seriously, but "the greatest expenditures of energy, however, go into th...
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