What if Moynat had collaborated?

We asked Marc, our in-house artist, to reinterpret this 1920s trunk in the Bauhaus style.

A stylistic exercise.
A step aside.

A collaboration conceived… 100 years in advance.

The Bauhaus movement was an artistic and architectural movement that emerged in 1919 in Germany, founded by Bauhaus under the impetus of Walter Gropius.

Its ambition was revolutionary: to unite art, craftsmanship, and industry to create forms adapted to the modern world.

The Bauhaus rejected unnecessary ornamentation and championed a functional, rational, and minimalist aesthetic.

The famous maxim sums up its philosophy:

"Form follows function."

Modern materials are showcased: tubular steel, glass, concrete, and bentwood.

The movement influenced all areas:

architecture

furniture

typography

graphic design

everyday objects

The designs favored:

simple geometric lines

clear volumes

primary colors (red, blue, yellow)

mass production

Major figures taught there:  Paul Klee, Wassily Kandinsky, Marcel Breuer, Mies van der Rohe.

Forced by the rise of Nazism, the Bauhaus closed in 1933, but its ideas spread throughout the world, particularly in the United States.

Its legacy is immense: contemporary design, modern furniture, minimalist architecture, and even today's industrial aesthetic owe it a great deal.

The Bauhaus is not a decorative style, it is a way of thinking about modernity.