May 2023
Gropius House
We spent the day in Concord area looking at several very interesting homes, all of which I will get to in another post. However, I am a fiend of architecture from the Bauhaus school, and to see the home of the master himself was such a joy.
The stairway to the Gropius’ daughter’s room. Manon
Walter Adolph Georg Gropius (May 1883 – July 1969) was a German-American architect and founder of the Bauhaus School. Gropius, along with Alvar Aalto, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Frank Lloyd Wright, are widely regarded as the pioneering masters of modernist architecture. Gropius was one of the founders of Bauhaus in Weimar (1919) and a leading architect of the International Style.
Looking back into the entry hall
The study of both Walter and his wife Ise.
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Penguin Donkey Bookcase by Egon Riss is designed to hold Penguin Books.
Walking into the living room with the Long Chair designed by Marcel Breuer for Isokon along with a Marcel Breuer Laccio Side End Table
“Butterfly” Stool by Sori Yanagi accompanied by nesting tables by Marcel Breuer
A small Henri Moore sculpture on the shelf
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The Dining room with Marcel Breuer’s MG5 chair, Designed in the 1950s
The kitchen was long and narrow, functional but minimal
The Kitchen
A closet on the first floor as you enter the house, but behind the stairwell, so nicely situated
The use of vertical slats in the hallway
The stairway to the second floor and the bedrooms
A bedside table, one of the personal pieces the Gropius’ were able to ship out of Nazi Germany.
An Afghani weaving over the bed
Only fifteen of the Gull bookstands were originally produced before the Second World War halted production in 1939 due to shortages in plywood. Designed as the smaller sibling to Egon Riss’s Penguin Donkey. The Gull was bought back into production in 2020.
The screened porch at the back of the house
I could go on and on about the family, the house and the history of Bauhaus architecture, but the pictures speak for themselves.