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	title of this thread your message As far as influence is concerned, we should not forget that the Wiener Werkstätte was one of the last in Western Europe to get motivated by William Morris and his Arts and Crafts movement and the form language, although influenced by the Wiener Sezession was not all that original. The chair cubic chair shown on your pictures on the right is a good case in point. It is not only an introduction to the Le Corbusier Grand Comfort, but a similar chair was already shown in the 1900 exhibition in Paris in the pavilion designed by and for the products of Gustave Serrurier-Bouvy, a Belgian architect and furniture designer and producer that was singled out together with Willy Finch, a Belgian who would start the school of applied arts in Helsinki, by German art critics as the two most influential people in the development of the modern movement in Germany (why Van De Velde was not mentioned is either a mystery or a reason to mistrust that assessment). I tried to see if there was a serious link between some people of the Wiener Werkstätte and the Novembergruppe of which Gropius and a few other Bauhaus people like Mies van der Rohe, Lyonel Feininger, Gerhard Marcks and Laslo Moholy-Nagy were active members. The link is unlikely because the Novembergruppe was, with members like Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weil, further left than most and the Wiener Werkstätte was a progressive but rather bourgeois institution. But even there I can not see any overlapping names or common events. I hope we can continue this discussion because I obviously have a lot to learn. Just for the fun of it I googled: Bauhaus Le Corbusier. We know that the only connection is the fact that both Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius were trained (as untrained architects) by Peter Behrens. Yet Google comes up with 281.000 references. associated web images (optional) associated web link (optional) your email your password create a forums account \| you forgot your password?