FACTORY SALES

Where do you think we could find out more information about these factory sales after reunification? The second-hand, industrial aesthetic must certainly be linked to these industrial "sellouts."

I also wonder what Bauhaus would think of re-using or re-contextualizing an object; moving it, for example, from the factory into the street, or from school into a private lounge? Gropius, I think, would not endorse this admixture because it means overlooking the elements of function, which are all tied to a notion of an object's context:

• Simplicity
  
• Symmetry
  
• Angularity
  
• Abstraction
  
• Consistency
  
• Unity
  
• Organization
  
• Economy
  
• Subtlety
  
• Continuity
  
• Regularity
  
• Sharpness
  
• Monochomaticit

Or maybe he would? I'm thinking back to Meagan's quote about the difference between modernism and Bauhaus, primarily that Bauhaus designs the object "for any setting." In isolating the form, the designer attempts to universalize it, which does permit, though maybe not endorse, the re-using of a factory floor chair in a cafe setting. (and, of course, we should think about the patent wars that went on with Bauhaus design too as an example of an re-attachment to singularity despite the proclamation of universality).