This door handle and the corresponding window handle by walter gropius were almost certainly designed 1923 but not manufactured by the berlin company s a.
Gropius famous door handles photo.
He studied architecture at the beginning of the twentieth century before entering the design bureau of peter behrens in 1907 along with mies van der rohe and corbusier.
Gift of jo carole and ronald s.
Gropius was also a leading architect of the international style.
Such handles were available with various types of angular and rounded plates roses and escutcheons.
Loevy in any quantities until 1923.
In 1923 gropius designed his famous door handles see today as an icon of 20th century design and often cited as one of the most influential items of applied art produced by bauhaus.
Loevy in any quantities until 1923.
2 3 8 x 7 3 4 x 6 6 x 19 7 x 15 2 cm mounted on wood base 10 x 4 3 4 x 3 3 8 25 4 x 12 1 x 8 6 cm.
My favourite modernist steel door handles and their designers including the tecnoline and lubetkin models a timeless selection from bauhaus gropius wagenfield and burchartz walter gropius a german architect industrial designer and teacher was the founder of the renowned bauhaus school in weimar.
Such handles were available with various types of angular and rounded plates roses and escutcheons.
Walter gropius adolf meyer.
History types also when the bauhaus relocated from weimar to dessau gropius himself designed and built the school building and faculty.