KPM Berlin borrow from the Bauhaus for stylish new line

Bauhaus—the design movement that emerged out of the Staatliches Bauhaus school in Weimar-era Germany is known to this day, 101 years after its founding, for its stylish aesthetics-meets-functionality ethos. For their latest line, celebrated porcelain manufacturers KPM Berlin look to the Bauhaus for inspiration—combining usefulness with elegance. In the late 1920s, KPM Berlin worked with a number of Bauhaus artists, such as Gerhard Marcks, Trude Petri and Marguerite Friedlaender-Wildenhain, and its new b100.1 collection borrows from their timeless approach to design. “We decided to bring back the classics once again in a new collection,’ says Thomas Wenzel, Head of Design at KPM Berlin. And so the b100.1 collection was born. “It’s masterfully hand-painted objects pay homage to modernity and a creative period that is very special to KPM Berlin.”

Among the pieces available to buy from 15 June are a stylish keep-cup and the Halle vase series, originally designed by Marguerite Friedlaender-Wildenhain in 1930—in true Bauhaus fashion its design harmoniously combines spherical and geometric forms.