debauhaus1-1, Exercise 2: Testing a myth

Model answer (one possible choice):

Myth chosen: "The Bauhaus invented the tubular-steel chair."

What to look up (check each):
- When Marcel Breuer made his first tubular-steel chair and what it was called, and which workshop made it.
- Who else was making tubular-steel furniture around the same time (for example designers outside the school), and in which years.
- Whether the school or a company produced and sold the chairs.

Which source to trust most: a museum or archive catalogue or a specialist history (for example the Bauhaus-Archiv in Berlin or a curator's book), because they cite dated objects and documents. A furniture shop or a magazine feature is the least reliable, because it tells a simplified brand story.

The likely finding is a more careful statement: the school's furniture work was important, but credit for the material and the form is shared (check the details).