New Bauhaus Museum settles in open-air museum
Tel Aviv’s new
Bauhaus Museum is located in the White City, a collection of 1930s-era International
Style buildings designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2003.
Tel Aviv’s “White City,” an unparalleled...
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New Bauhaus Museum settles in open-air museum
Tel Aviv’s new
Bauhaus Museum is located in the White City, a collection of 1930s-era International
Style buildings designated a UNESCO World Heritage site in 2003.
Tel Aviv’s “White City,” an unparalleled collection of 4,000 International Style
buildings, now has a Bauhaus Museum to display Bauhaus-designed furnishings and
related objects.
The museum is appropriately located, in an International Style building.
The first exhibition, which opened April 25, includes original furniture, graphics, lamps,
and glass and ceramic ware, by Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer, Christian Bell,
Wilhelm Wagenfeld, and others.
It was because of the “White City” that Tel Aviv was added to the list of 56 historical
cities in the world in 2003, and became one of the few modern cities to be declared a
world heritage site by UNESCO.
The maverick architects and designers of the city could
not have imagined that their application of the rev
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