100 years old, and still just as cool In 1926, Gunta Stölzl, head of the Bauhaus?s weaving workshop (and one of many extraordinary women at the school), designed a patterned blanket that laid across beds in the Prellerhaus dormitory at Bauhaus Dessau.
The ?Prellerdecke? blanket (?Preller? refers to painter Friedrich Preller and ?decke? means bedcover in German) was intricate yet modern, with lines and colors that intersected to create a striped pattern. Stölzl?s students in her workshop handwove more than 100 of those blankets, which have all since been lost.

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Original Prellerdecke in a Bauhaus dorm alcove.

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Wallace Sewell Prellerhaus blanket in the original Fallow color way.
Now, the blankets are coming back to celebrate the Bauhaus?s 100th anniversary this year. Jörg Klambt, founder of Designshop Bauhaus Dessau, commissioned London textile studio Wallace Sewell to recreate the blanket design.

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The three color ways are Fallow (the original), Orchard, and Seal.

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Wallace Sewell referenced an archival photo of the original blanket to accurately capture the ?rhythm and simplicity of Gunta?s design,? working closely with Stölzl?s daughter, Monika Stadler, in the process.
After detailed design development on small looms, the resulting Wallace Sewell Prellerhaus blankets inc...