Marianne Brandt. Brandt&#x27;s designs for metal ashtrays, tea and coffee services, lamps and other household objects are now recognized as among the best of the Weimar and Dessau Bauhaus. Further, they were among the few Bauhaus designs to be mass-produced during the interwar period.  After leaving the Bauhaus for Berlin in 1929, became  the head of metal design at the Ruppel firm in Gotha.