Maison de l'architecture de Poitou-Charentes

This is an old industrial building which now houses an architectural association in Poitiers with exhibition space. I saw the free 'Bauhaus.photo' exhibition here celebrating 100 years of Bauhaus. It documented lots of photos of life at Bauhaus, architecture , design and portraits of the students and iconic lecturers such as Gropius, Klee and Kandinsky plus a few original chairs by le Corbusier and Mies Van Der Rohe were there. It felt almost surreal to be looking at the original Bauhaus pieces which we've all seen copies of but none match up to the Wassily chair here complete with worn leather!