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  • The New Bauhaus Masters’ Houses, Dessau

    The New Bauhaus Masters’ Houses, Dessau

    … continuing from our earlier post on the original Bauhaus Masters’ Houses, The first house we saw when coming from the School was the new Director’s House (Direktonenhaus) where the information desk is situated.  Why are there new Masters’ Houses ? After the Bauhauslers moved out in 1932/1933, the school was closed by the Nazis,

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  • The Original Bauhaus Masters’ Houses, Dessau

    The Original Bauhaus Masters’ Houses, Dessau

    This is our third post on the Bauhaus site in Dessau. Our visit was made during the centenary year (2019) of the founding of the Bauhaus School of Design. For this post, try a 2020 collaboration by the brothers Eno – Mixing Colours spotify:playlist:0LYxIitOywh75P1SCrrNEz A lot of the academic-sounding text in these Bauhaus posts were

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  • The Bauhaus Building, Dessau

    The Bauhaus Building, Dessau

    Our second stop in Dessau was the Bauhaus school building itself. Let a 1979 Krautrock track accompany you on this post. More 70’s Kraurock at spotify:playlist:3poTntSnquikPDgA4Vx5vO A lot of the academic-sounding text in these Bauhaus posts were partially taken from our purchased books, pamphlets we picked up on site, as well as the copious volumes

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  • The brand new Bauhaus Museum Dessau (in 2019)

    The brand new Bauhaus Museum Dessau (in 2019)

    Since it was not possible to do much traveling in 2020, we do not have many photos left to share from last year. Going back …, 2019 was the centenary year of the founding of the Bauhaus school in Germany.  We took a pilgrimage tour of the three German cities where the Bauhaus school existed:

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Jungfrau, a must-see in Switzerland

Art and Architecture on Naoshima 直島, Japan

Morocco Adventure: Sand, Sea and Souks

Venice, its canals and carriers

Notable Bookstores of the World – Series 1

Familiar food we (as travelers) ate while in Tokyo

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