Designer of the Week: Peter Behrens
Posted by Manhattan Home Design on Jan 15th 2019
German designer and architect Peter Behrens was an influence to many in the modernist movement, including Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius and a large group of the school’s most notable alumni.
He was born in 1868 in Hamburg, North German Confederation. Like Gropius, he was born a wealthy man, and he attended prestigious European schools. Nonetheless, he would start his design career with an
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