Bauhaus

Bauhaus

1920-1940
Art Deco/Art Moderne

This light pearl-gray is used with dramatic effect on the ceiling of the master bedroom at Historic New England's Gropius House in Lincoln, Massachusetts. Ceilings painted in light colors, rather than simply in white, were an innovation of the 1930s. Most were in pastels, rather than the sophisticated and elegantly modern gray used at the Gropius House, home of Bauhaus founder, Walter Gropius.  Staatliches Bauhaus, a school in Germany that combined crafts and the fine arts, operated from 1919 to 1933.