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Pour l'Amour du Fil - Pour l'Amour du Fil Simply Patchwork Fabric Affair September 2010 Quilt, about 1900 Our ideas about modernism focus on simple geometric shapes. Quilt, about 1950 During the early 20th century, German artists organized the Bauhaus, an art school based on strict principles of design, a reaction to the Craftsman movement and Art Nouveau with their reverence for the natural line and the handmade object. Bauhaus principles emphasized that form must follow function. Design in the modern world should be created for mass manufacture. Bauhaus aesthetics took direction from ideas such as Adolf Loos' 1908 manifesto Ornament and Crime, which foreshadowed architecture inspired by the unadorned box. The Bauhaus in Germany Like another trend setter Elsie DeWoolf, Adolf Loos may have had a bad childhood experience with the wallpaper. Bauhaus ballet, costumes by Oscar Schlemmer, 1926 Too bad this fashion didn't catch on. Model wearing a mask by Schlemmer in a Bauhaus chair by Marcel Breuer The human face reduced to acceptable ornament. Textile Design by Sonia DeLaunay, 1930

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