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    Commentary: My Bauhaus childhood, when molding was taboo

    by Sara Kirschenbaum, Los Angeles Times Aug 27, 2019 4 minutes

    In 1919, a handful of architects, designers and craftsmen started the Bauhaus design school in Germany to change the world. They wanted to modernize architecture and product design by stripping away old-fashioned ornamentation, streamlining elegant design, and making it available for all people. If they could have hopped into a time machine and traveled 100 years ahead and visited any Target, IKEA or high-rise office building, they would have been astonished how thoroughly successful they were.

    My Bauhaus-educated parents had a hand in this transformation, though my younger self struggled to understand their passionate opinions about design.

    I remember back in 1983, when my architect father traveled all the way from New York City

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