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Re:From Art Nouveau to Bauhaus: How Home Interiors Looked in... by pyrale on Friday September 01, 2023 @09:16AM (#37350421)
> Otherwise, it’s interesting to me how Bauhaus seems to have aged much worse

Could it be that the most acclaimed expressions of art nouveau were the product of a gilded age, while the bauhaus legacy was mostly enacted during the postwar period where speed of rebuilding was more important that quality of buildings?

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Re:From Art Nouveau to Bauhaus: How Home Interiors Looked in... by keiferski on Friday September 01, 2023 @09:33AM (#37350621)
There was actually a lot more money put into art deco (which happened post WW1) than art nouveau, but yeah bauhaus and modernism certainly flourished in a resource-scarce post-war environment.
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Re:From Art Nouveau to Bauhaus: How Home Interiors Looked in... by sheepybloke on Saturday September 02, 2023 @03:46PM (#37364873)
The other big influence is that a lot of the members of the Bauhaus went to the US to teach, and so they influenced many of the midcentury designers that designed and built the post-war world.
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