CORY REYNOLDS | DATE 3/9/2019

Lars Müller's 'Bauhaus Journal' facsimile edition is a landmark in design publishing

Reproducing all fourteen of the Bauhaus's in-house quarterly, founded and overseen by Walter Gropius and László Moholy-Nagy from 1926 to 1931, this remarkable facsimile edition is design-world gold. Slipcased with the first complete translation of the journals in English (or any other language), this volume is also a New York Times critic's pick this week. "I can only imagine how exciting it must have been to hold the first issue of the bauhaus journal in one's hand in December 1926 and then look forward avidly to the latest news from the modernist idea lab every quarter year," visionary publisher Lars Müller writes. "Produced quickly and at low cost, the journal breathes the avant-garde spirit, and its concise typography, inspired by Moholy-Nagy's design of the first issues, veritably insists on the urgency of the message it brings…" Featured here are the covers for bauhaus 1, volume 1, 1926; bauhaus 1, volume 2, 1928; bauhaus 2/3, volume 2, 1928; and bauhaus 4, volume 3, 1929.