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Article: Before Ikea, there was Bauhaus
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- The Irish Times
- Article date:
- August 8, 2009
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The Bauhaus movement, founded in 1919 with the aim of changing
the world through design, is now a byword for modernity. Its legacy
is now to be celebrated in a new exhibition
IF HISTORY HAD taken a different turn, Bauhaus could have been
bigger than Ikea - an idea worth considering as Irish shoppers
experience first-hand in Ballymun how democratic design can conquer
the world, one room at a time.
Although Ikea presents itself as being more Swedish than Pippi
Longstocking, the furniture company owes a huge debt to the
pioneering work of Germany's Bauhaus movement. The design school's
famous philosophy - form follows function - may seem obvious to
someone screwing together a flat-pack coffee ...