Bauhaus is a very, very, very fine haus.

I still don't have a camera. I need to remedy that, but I have no idea how to even choose a digital camera. It overwhelms me a million.

We went to visit my parents (they live in the Boston area) for my birthday, & got to see the home of Walter Gropius, one of the founding members of the Bauhaus architecture movement. It was pretty amazing. The house was built in 1938 & cost $20,000.







(Photos from Historic New England magazine)

One wall of the living room/dining room area is almost completely made of glass & the lighting was fixed in such a way that when you sit at the table in the evening, the glass becomes invisible & gives the illusion of eating outdoors. Most of the original furnishings were still in tact, down to the collection of books. There were several copies of various books on art & architecture, to be used when Gropius had guests who did not know about certain ideas deemed of high importance by Gropius. Rather than briefly explaining the concepts to them, he kept extra copies of books on hand to give to them to take home. There were so many elements of clever design in the house, but they'd likely make for boring reading. If you're ever in Lancaster, MA, check out the house & the nearby bizarre/awesome Decordova sculpture garden (basically an arboretum with crazy modern sculptures scattered about).