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 BBC Two is working in collaboration with the V&A on a series about Modernism called Marvels of the Modern World and the bfi National Film Theatre presents a Modernism in Cinema season in spring 2006.
It will be the first in-depth look at the movement which revolutionised the world around us and the way we live, giving us fitted kitchens, our obsession with sunbathing and gyms, and our love of clean, minimalist architecture and design.
Modernism: Designing a New World will look at the key defining movement of 20th century design, from the white geometric planes of Corbusier’s Modernist houses to streamlined silver cars; from the first Bauhaus steel framed chairs of the 1920s to the smooth surfaces of the first fitted kitchen – all highlighted in the exhibition.
 The V&A exhibition will be the first to examine how Modernism swept the design world, especially Europe, Russia and America. There will be over 300 objects and more than 50 film clips in the exhibition.
On show will be sculpture, painting, photography, furniture, fashion, prints and architecture. Key modernist figures who will be featured include artists Piet Mondrian and Fernand Leger, architects Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius, furniture designers Marcel Breuer and Alvar Aalto, fashion designer Sonia Delaunay and photographer Man Ray.
It will show how it developed from its origins in Germany’s famous Bauhaus schools in the earliest 1920s to its acceptance in the American mass market in the 1930s. Finally it will show how Modernism found its distinctive style – abstract, linear, geometric – which still dominates design today.
Top: Lester T. Beall, Light poster for Rural Electrification Administration, 1937. Copyright - Victoria and Albert Museum.
Right: B3 Club Chair, Designed by Marcel Breuer 1925, Manufactured by Standard Moebel or Gebrueder Thonet 1927. Copyright - Victoria and Albert Museum.
The Exhibition runs from 6 April – 23 July 2006.
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Modernism: Designing a New World
BBC Two will screen a four part series on Modernism and its legacy today, presented by Dan Cruikshank called Marvels Of The Modern Age. The Exhibition runs from 6 April – 23 July 2006.
Sponsored by Habitat.
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