Bauhaus 1919-2019
Bauhaus 1919-2019
Cabaret Typographie
Bauhaus 1919-2019 is a limited-edition letterpress poster by Cabaret Typographie. The poster celebrates the centenary of the founding of the Staatliches Bauhaus, the German art and design school where the Bauhaus art movement was born.
Cabaret Typographie was founded in 2010 by Laura Dal Maso, Mauro De Toffol, and Tommaso Pucci. Three designers, two cities - Milan and Paris - and a shared obsession with movable type. Everything they produce is set and printed by hand.
Their base in Milan is Atelier Bonvini 1909, where they've been in residence since 2022.
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Artist Cabaret Typographie
Title Bauhaus 1919-2019
Year 2019
Technique Letterpress printing by Tipoteca Italiana in 4 colours from laser-cut MDF matrices
Format 50 x 70 cm
Paper Materica Gesso gr. 250
Print run 50 signed and numbered copies
Framed in white box frame
About the workshop
A few steps off Corso Lodi in Milan, a stationery and print shop has been open since 1909. Costante and Luigia Bonvini founded it as the neighbourhood's place for paper and ink. More than a century later, the original presses still run.
In 2014, a group of friends rescued the shop from disappearing, restoring it with architects who specialise in cultural heritage. The machines - a 19th-century platen press, an Imperial Cylinder Press, a Heidelberg Stella - were returned to working order.
Bonvini 1909 is now part print shop, part gallery, part cultural institution. Every piece carries the particular character that only a hand-fed press can produce - the slight variation, the impression in the paper, the evidence of a human hand.
