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Chamberlain Cottage by Marcel Breuer, Weyland, Massachusetts, 1941. Gelatin silver print. Carnegie Museum of Art, Purchase: gift of the Drue Heinz Trust. Image courtesy of Carnegie Museum of Art, copyright Ezra Stoller/Esto, Yossi Milo Gallery.
Chamberlain Cottage by Marcel Breuer, Weyland, Massachusetts, 1941. Gelatin silver print. Carnegie Museum of Art, Purchase: gift of the Drue Heinz Trust. Image courtesy of Carnegie Museum of Art, copyright Ezra Stoller/Esto, Yossi Milo Gallery.
The third house that Breuer built for his family is located in New Canaan, Connecticut, and features many of the designers' furnishings, including the Isokon armchairs from 1935. (1951)
The third house that Breuer built for his family is located in New Canaan, Connecticut, and features many of the designers' furnishings, including the Isokon armchairs from 1935. (1951)
After declaring that he was done designing houses in the late 1960s, Breuer took a commission to design the Sayer House in France in 1972. He accepted only because the residents were willing to build a design that Breuer had proposed to another client in 1959. Its defining feature is a hyperbolic paraboloid roof made of board-formed concrete.
After declaring that he was done designing houses in the late 1960s, Breuer took a commission to design the Sayer House in France in 1972. He accepted only because the residents were willing to build a design that Breuer had proposed to another client in 1959. Its defining feature is a hyperbolic paraboloid roof made of board-formed concrete.
MARCEL BREUER: SUN AND SHADOW [The Philosophy of an Architect]. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1956. Photo: modernism 101.
MARCEL BREUER: SUN AND SHADOW [The Philosophy of an Architect]. New York: Dodd, Mead and Company, 1956. Photo: modernism 101.
MARCEL BREUER Bent plywood nesting table, c.1936. Photo: Adam Edelsberg.
MARCEL BREUER Bent plywood nesting table, c.1936. Photo: Adam Edelsberg.
House Breuer II, New Canaan, Connecticut (USA), 1948. 
© Marcel Breuer Papers, Archives of American Art, Washington, D.C.
House Breuer II, New Canaan, Connecticut (USA), 1948. 
© Marcel Breuer Papers, Archives of American Art, Washington, D.C.
Tubular dining table The shape of the frame was inspired by Marcel Breuer’s 1930 coffee table b10. Shock tube chair This chair, based loosely on the design by Mart Stam from 1927, not only looks great, but it is also extremely comfortable and virtually indestructible.
Tubular dining table The shape of the frame was inspired by Marcel Breuer’s 1930 coffee table b10. Shock tube chair This chair, based loosely on the design by Mart Stam from 1927, not only looks great, but it is also extremely comfortable and virtually indestructible.
Fascinated by his bicycle, Breuer conducted early experimentations with tubular steel that resulted in the iconic Wassily chair, the first of many furnishings that he made with the material. (1925)
Fascinated by his bicycle, Breuer conducted early experimentations with tubular steel that resulted in the iconic Wassily chair, the first of many furnishings that he made with the material. (1925)
Marcel Breuer's Hooper House II in Baltimore, Maryland proves that wonderfully natural materials, like these flagstones used in the walls, are perfectly at home in Bauhaus geometry. The interior courtyard and view out to the landscape create a nice sense of intimacy while keeping the house in touch with its surroundings. Photo by Raymond Meier.
Marcel Breuer's Hooper House II in Baltimore, Maryland proves that wonderfully natural materials, like these flagstones used in the walls, are perfectly at home in Bauhaus geometry. The interior courtyard and view out to the landscape create a nice sense of intimacy while keeping the house in touch with its surroundings. Photo by Raymond Meier.
A new owner with a light touch has kept Marcel Breuer's 1959 Hooper House II a marvel of the mid-20th century whose life will extend well into the 21st. Resident Richard North only modified the idyllic, suburban Baltimore retreat with a few contemporary design moves: replacing the roof, putting glass doors on the fireplaces in the children’s playroom and the living room, considering taking down part of a wall to add a pass-through window to the skylighted kitchen (but later thought better of it), adding garage doors to the carport, and converting the adjoining stables to make more garage space.
A new owner with a light touch has kept Marcel Breuer's 1959 Hooper House II a marvel of the mid-20th century whose life will extend well into the 21st. Resident Richard North only modified the idyllic, suburban Baltimore retreat with a few contemporary design moves: replacing the roof, putting glass doors on the fireplaces in the children’s playroom and the living room, considering taking down part of a wall to add a pass-through window to the skylighted kitchen (but later thought better of it), adding garage doors to the carport, and converting the adjoining stables to make more garage space.
Wasilly chair. Marcel Breuer (1925). $2,515.
Wasilly chair. Marcel Breuer (1925). $2,515.
Marcel Breuer A passionate designer and architect, the Bauhaus-trained icon once wrote about about “The taste of space on your tongue/The fragrance of dimensions/The juice of stone."
Marcel Breuer A passionate designer and architect, the Bauhaus-trained icon once wrote about about “The taste of space on your tongue/The fragrance of dimensions/The juice of stone."