The philosophy of essential form and color attributed to a new inspiration not only in the art for but also in Industrial Design. The Bauhaus became the cauldron of Neoplastic Art and Design philosophy. It resulted in finding a new form of aesthetic beauty through ‘straight line’. Naturally such philosophy greatly influenced the field of Industrial Design. Industrial Design Products.
“...posited on the fundamental principle of the geometry of the straight line, the square, and the rectangle, combined with a strong asymmetricality; the predominant use of pure primary colors with black and white; and the relationship between positive and negative elements in an arrangement of non-objective forms and lines." (Ref. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/De_Stijl).
Based on the pure geometric forms compositions are derived through asymmetric arrangements. Interestingly architecture took the first step to integrate the Neoplastic ideal in their work. Discarding the ornamental quality and introducing the minimal forms through straight lines became a new language of aesthetic expression.
