No other art school has left its mark on contemporary architecture as that of Bauhaus. Founded in Weimar in 1919, the Bauhaus movement revolutionised views on aesthetics and architecture in subsequent years. 100 years on, it can be said that Bauhaus was the most significant school of architecture, design as well as 20th-century free and applied arts.

Clean, reduced forms, functional details and colours are core components and form the basic principles of the Bauhaus approach. LEUCHTTURM1917, too, also gears its pro- duct development along these lines. Bauhaus has always been a source of inspiration for us, and we can truly relate to it. Consequently, we have decided to create a special edition to reflect this.

Wassily Kandinsky, painter, graphic artist, art theorist and teacher of the Bauhaus move- ment, summed it up with the following: “Everything starts from a dot”. Creativity emer- ges in the mind, but if it is to be given to the real world, it must leave the mind and travel through the hand to a sheet of paper, and always begins ... with a dot. The first point of contact between thought and paper, a decisive moment.

“Everything starts from a dot.” This quote forms the keynote of our official anniversary edition commemorating the centenary of the founding of Bauhaus. You can find out more about this and other new arrivals on the following pages. We welcome your feed- back and look forward to our ongoing growing partnership.