Sleep in Bauhaus

Sleeping like a Bauhausler, is the call from Bauhaus Dessau, in Germany, inviting its visitors to spend one night or more as a Bauhaus student of the 1920s.

Celebrating its 90th anniversary, Bauhaus offers its visitors the opportunity to staying in the world's most famous school of art & design.

Designed by architect Walter Gropius, school director at that time, the Studio Building also known as Prellerhaus, was completed in 1926. In those days, the 28 studios with about 24 m2 were inhabited by young teachers and the most promising students, among which stand out names such as Josef Albers, Erich Consemüller, Herbert Bayer, Franz Ehrlich, Walter Peterhans, Hannes Meyer, Joost Schmidt, Gertrud Arndt, Marcel Breuer, or Marianne Brandt, Gunta Stölzl and Anni Albers, who stayed in the so called ladies floor.

Since October 2013, studio flats are let to visitors, providing the experience of living and inhabiting this rooms that remain in the 1920s Bauhaus style, accurately reconstructed with original objects and furniture. Some rooms are custom reflecting its occupation by a former inhabitant, as Alfred Arndt, the couple Albers and Franz Ehrlich.

Visitors can choose single or double studio flats, from 35 € to 60 € a night.

Find out more at: www.bauhaus-dessau.de/accommodation.html