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The Breuer Collection. While at the Bauhaus, Marcel Breuer revolutionized the modern vocabulary with his tubular steel furniture. His first designs — inspired by bicycle construction and fabricated using the techniques of local plumbers — are among the most influential and important of the modern movement. Starting At Price.
Marcel Breuer at the Bauhaus Dessau (ca. 1926) by Erich Consemüller (Photo) Bauhaus Dessau Foundation. He was just 18 when he arrived at the Bauhaus in 1920, and 23 when his gaze wandered over the sparkling handlebars of his beloved Adler bike and suddenly he knew – you have to make chairs from metal like this!
1948 Scott House – Dennis, Massachusetts. 1948 Thompson House – Ligonier, Pennsylvania. 1949 Kepes and Breuer Cottages – Wellfleet, Massachusetts. 1949 Hooper House I – Baltimore, Maryland. 1949 House in the Museum Garden at Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York. 1950 Tilley House – Red Bank, New Jersey – based upon the MoMA House.
May 22, 2016 · Spotlight: Marcel Breuer. Known as Lajkó to his friends, Marcel Lajos Breuer (21 May 1902 – 1 July 1981) helped define first the interior contents, then the form, of the modernist house for ...
Apr 18, 2011 · A little over a decade later, the building was to be moved to Manhattan's Upper East Side, and architect Marcel Breuer was asked to plan and build the gallery with help from Hamilton Smith. The ...
Bibliography. Marcel Breuer (May 21, 1902-July 1, 1981), the Hungarian-born furniture designer and architect associated with the Bauhaus school of arts and crafts, gained an international reputation as a leader in modernist architecture in Europe and the United States. Early in his tenure in the United States, he planned two projects in North ...
Marcel Breuer was a Hungarian architect and furniture designer, best known for the iconic design of what is now known as the Breuer Building. Located at the corner of Madison Avenue and 75th Street in New York, it served as the home of the Whitney Museum of American Art from 1966 until the museum’s relocation in 2015. Considered somber—even ...
