By 1922/23, following its expressionist beginnings, a system of formal geometric design influenced by the De Stijl school had established itself in Bauhaus.It was in this context that Gropius designed the strictly cubist director’s room using both his own designs and those of other Bauhaus designers. Books and journals are housed in a meandering shelving system, the desk and chair shape the room’s rectilinear structure, further accentuated by a four-tube festoon lamp. The ensemble is completed with a Gropius-designed cubist armchair and sofa suite that combines voluminous upholstery with a novel frame. This intersection of volume and linearity is reminiscent of contemporary architecture projects by Gropius,