This is a year of celebration in the world of design and Creativity.
One hundred years ago the Bauhaus was founded in Germany by Walter Gropius. It is generally known as a school of design but the Bauhaus was much more than that.
It was a movement that influenced how to understand, teach and express the phenomenon of creation in architecture, industrial design, theater, art, textiles, dance, etc in relation with the new vast possibilities presented by the recently born modern era developing theories in all those fields that will have a tremendous impact in the definition of what we call modernity.
The repercussions in the world of design still are being felt, seen and reinterpreted.
Wishing not to reduce the complexity of their ideas but wanting to bring the attention to two of the elements, geometry and color, that for them were extremely important and around which they established studies on form and colour that now 100 years later are emerging again defining trends and shaping the feel and look of many areas including interior design.
The “primary” geometric shapes (circle, triangle and square) and their relationship with the primary colours (blue, red and yellow) are being reinterpreted in textiles, furniture design and tiles among others disciplines.
Thanks to the development of computer software we have moved from a two-dimensional appreciation and creation of form in the XX Century to a tridimensional one in the XXI.
I think the celebrations around the Bauhaus will be a beautiful excuse for appreciating the simplicity and beauty of the basic geometric shapes and the importance of their proportions, scale and colour when designing in contrast to the hyperbolization of form presented predominantly in architecture, graphics and temporary architecture as the formal expression that defines the XXI century.
Today I went to a presentation about the trends for 2019 in the world of tiles by Domus Tiles and it was clear to me that the legacy of the Bauhaus will have a stronger influence that we expect in the world of interiors with the invitation to use a simpler, more serene and well-balanced palette.
