The Bauhaus always wins

With stark lines and elegant utilitarianism, Walter Gropius’s unified design movement still shapes the form of things today

Wassily chairs, originally designed in 1925 by Marcel Breuer (€600-€1,000)

The history of architecture and design is studded with great new ideas.

Think of the pyramids, the glories of ancient Greece and Rome – when Palladio rediscovered them he set the built template ...