The Bauhaus School was a German design school responsible for some of the most modern architectural and furniture designs of the 20th Century. It ran from 1919 through to 1933 and was founded by the architect Walter Gropius Weimar.
Born in Berlin in 1883, Walter Gropius Weimar was the son of a building advisor to the German government.
Gropius founded the Bauhaus school of design, where the students were taught to create modern looking furniture and architecture using innovative materials.
When the Nazi party rose to power in the thirties, Gropius left his native Germany for Britain and then America.
Bauhaus remains an important movement in the field of design and the furniture inspired by the Bauhaus movement is still produced and sought after today.