I love the graphics and most of the explaining, but to me it seems yet kinda ambigous. Maybe this is just so general, but still.. I think it could be more specific.
The guy said the cantilever chair was -inspired- by Marcel Breuer, sorry I was reading the comments just as the relevant audio played, and couldn't resist a bit of re-correction touche to the pedantic youtube commenter :)
Germany between the world wars was actually not that conservative. It was very diverse politically. Germany at the time was the world center for innovation and creativity, for art and culture. The German film studios were bigger and more influential than Hollywood in those days! There was a big and lively party scene in the major cities with open homosexuality and transvestites. Germany had a massive number of Nobel Price winners from all categories. But it all came to an end in the years following 1933. I personally strongly dislike Bauhaus style and the influence it still has on German buildings.
The building you indicate as being in Weimar is actually in Dessau, Germany. The Bauhaus school moved to Dessau in 1925 after a newly elected reactionary government in Weimar cut their funding.
Twisted quotes and sensationalist illustration result in a vid I doubt you'll change or take down but here's the truth: Breuer had creative vision of chairs metaphorically represented by air. This was the drive for his creation of the cantilevered chair. Yet you state he first created the chair then, "despite his success...", predicted a future where chairs are obsolete replaced by columns of air making people float. This is a disgrace to his name and creative genius.
I like bauhaus design, but why is there this attitude that decoration is bad and that you can't put something in just because it looks good ? also, is modernism the end of architecture? or will there be a new shift in the future?
"Ripped off"? Really? So the students & teachers of Bauhaus develop a design methodology that leads to more efficient and timeless designs that are ultimately better and more enjoyable for people to use, and by following these design principles you are "ripping them off"? That's an incredibly close-mined way to look at things. If they copied a SPECIFIC design and called it their own, that would be a ripoff. But using the same principles? Get serious.
@@jasondavis3521 Lol, funny! Those are variants of a classic "design". If you want to spot a rip off and battle over designer rights in this video, there's one at 1:09 to 1;23 . Mart Stam designed this chair in 1926 and showed his drawing to Ludwig Mies von der Rohe. Ludwig & Marcel took the idea and made many variants on it. A 1932 German court confirmed that not Marcel Breuer, but Mart Stam invented / designed the Freischwinger / cantilever chair shown in this video. See for instance www.ebenist.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Otakar-Macel-LR.pdf
I wish the scene about Bauhaus creating "art school" as an institution didn't show a drunken, passed out student with a wine bottle - b/c of this, I dont' think I can show it to my high school design students. (Boo).
