In 2011, two German design experts visited a preliminary presentation of Torsten Bröhan’s Hangzhou design collection, which is officially referred to as the “Bauhaus collection” in the Chinese public even though many of the exhibits…
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A beautiful teakettle from the Bröhan Collection for Huangzhou, which was confused with something from the Bauhaus era, stands as the symbol of China’s creativity policy – the country needs new designers! By buying the…
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The list of people who have been associated with Torsten Bröhan’s design collection in recent years before it was sold to Hangzhou reads a little like a who’s who of the international design scene. Here…
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Did a graphic designer from China living in Berlin become the key figure of what was probably the biggest deal in design objects there has ever been? The Chinese city of Hangzhou paid millions of…
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What can the Bauhaus teach modern up-and-coming designers in China? Clean design, clarity of form, a renunciation of ornamentation? The Bauhaus, as devised by its founders Henry van de Velde and Walter Gropius in Germany…
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