The Bauhaus Archive in Berlin is a small museum, but chock full of examples of the work of Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Herbert Bayer, and, of course, the chairs of Marcel Breuer. We had a variation of his chairs, upholstered in yellow vinyl, in my kitchen when I was growing up the 1950s in small-town Iowa. Amazing that such famous design trickles down like that to affect the lives of people like me, who had no idea.
This was a “snap” shot taken with the Canon S110, in direct contradiction to the Archive's no photo policy. I'd taken another shot earlier and got a rather over long lecture from one of the guards, in German. So, I kind of snuck this one out of my pocket and pointed and shot. ISO 1600, 1/13 sec exposure, f/5.6. I processed it in lightroom to even out the contrast a bit, then imported it into NIK Silver Efex to make it black and white and soften it using the Sepia preset. Bauhaus just sort of screams black and white sometimes.
For more info about the equipment I use, see this page.
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