As an independent architect and industrial designer walter gropius went on to design the simple and functional gropius door handle which was first produced by s a.
Gropius door handle.
Walter gropius adolf meyer.
The modernists notably the designers at the bauhaus understood that each element of a building might express the ideas embodied in the whole and in the door handle they found the perfect tool for reducing a building to its most minimal form.
I for one can not conceive of an apple or a braun product s design without the influence of bauhaus design.
Loevy in any quantities until 1923.
Loevy in any quantities until 1923.
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.
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.
Walter gropius door handle design.
Such handles were available with various types of angular and rounded plates roses and escutcheons.
The next big shift came with the application of functionalist sensibilities to the handle.
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.
Door and window handles designed by walter gropius walter gropius was born in 1883 and to this day is regarded as one of the paragons of classic bauhaus design.