Bauhahahahaus

Le Corbusier once said “Chairs are architecture, sofas are bourgeois.” A hundred years later, a cheap copy of his LC1 chair delivers a message — as much as there is a lot to admire in Bauhaus theories, there is a lot to laugh at too.

The chair structure was entirely cut, bent, and welded by hand, with the addition of a specially designed set of 3D-printed gears and pulleys. The typography on the seat is a result of improvisation using an embroidery machine with the classic Bauhaus font Futura. Both the texts and the mechanical elements are crafted using primary colors: red, blue, and yellow.

Although the chair is almost an exact copy of the original LC1, its elements of improvisation and grotesque poke fun at Bauhaus's rigid design rules.

︎︎︎ DB1 chair next to original LC1 chair.