….types outline the image of a certain physical community. [Peter] Behrens’s work as a designer applies the principles of Werkbund, which dictate restoring ‘style’ in the singular, as opposed to the proliferation of styles plural bound up with capitalist, commodity anarchy. The Werkbund aspires to a correspondence between form and content. It wants the form of the object to correspond to its body and to the function it is to perform. It wants a society’s forms of existence to convey the internal principle that makes it exist. This correspondence between the form of objects and their function, and between their icons and their nature, is at the heart of the idea of ‘type.’ Types are the formative principles of a new communal life, where the material forms of existence are informed by a shared spiritual principle. In the type, industrial form and artistic form are conjoined. The form of objects is then a formative principle of life forms
Jacques Rancière, The Future of the Image, 95-96.
Produktblatt nach Entwürfen von Peter Behrens.
Design is fine. History is mine. 