Such handles were available with various types of angular and rounded plates roses and escutcheons.
Gropius door handle.
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.
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.
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.
Loevy in any quantities until 1923.
Walter gropius door handle design.
I for one can not conceive of an apple or a braun product s design without the influence of bauhaus design.
Walter gropius adolf meyer.
Such handles were available with various types of angular and rounded plates roses and escutcheons.
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.
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.
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.
The next big shift came with the application of functionalist sensibilities to the handle.