Holy crap. Your correspondent is currently on vacation in the United Kingdom, eagerly about to set off for the Scottish Highlands, and a bit envious he's not in Germany--where travelers will now have the opportunity to crash in a Bauhaus dorm. Not just a dorm designed in the Bauhaus style, but the actual living quarters of students who attended the Bauhaus in the 1920s!

The Guardian's lucky Hans Kundnani recently got to rest his head there:

...Although white and grey dominate, I was also surprised at how many splashes of colour there are - an orange wall here, a yellow ceiling there - which were intended to be not only aesthetic but also functional (red, for example, signifies movement).

...[The Meisterhauser is] clusters of white cubes with flat roofs and glass curtain walls. Inside there are even more colours than in the main building - 140 of them to be precise. Kandinsky's house even has a gold wall - not something I had expected to see at the Bauhaus... Sitting in the curved glass-fronted dining room, you feel almost as if you are floating above the river while you eat your Sauerkrauttopf.

...I settled into my room in the so-called studio building which has been re-developed as a kind of boutique youth hostel. The furniture is a mixture of period and contemporary, including a bright red bed designed by the current director of the Bauhaus foundation that runs the museum. Each room has its own washbasin and there are communal toilets and showers on each floor (in the 1920s, the showers were down in the basement). If minimalism is your thing, it's a great (and, at €40 for a double, amazingly cheap) place to stay that gives a unique sense of day-to-day life at the Bauhaus. When I woke the next morning and stepped out onto my balcony, I almost felt like I was a Bauhaus student myself.

After breakfast in the canteen where the Bauhaus students used to eat for free (you sit on Breuer stools, of course)....

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