Functional design, suitable for advanced industrial serial production - designers and architects who were passionate about the Bauhaus style may have blossomed in the 1920s and 1930s, but their designs still work today. Names such as Walter Gropius (initiator and 1st director of the Bauhaus, founded in 1919), Marcel Breuer (Wassily, Laccio), Mart Stam (steel-tube cantilever chair) and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (Barcelona chair) are classics that have remained popular to this day.