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Marcel Lajos Breuer (/ ˈ b r ɔɪ. ər / BROY-ər; 21 May 1902 – 1 July 1981) was a Hungarian-German modernist architect and furniture designer. He moved to the United States in 1937 and became a naturalized American citizen in 1944.
The Cesca chair (/ ˈ tʃ ɛ s k ə /) is a chair design created in 1928 by the Hungarian-American architect and designer Marcel Breuer. It consists of a tubular steel frame and a rattan seat and backing. [1] [2] [3] The design was named as a tribute to Breuer’s adopted daughter Francesca (nicknamed Cesca). [4]
Marcel Breuer. Table, Model B19, ca. 1928 Brooklyn Museum Cesca This is a chronological list of houses, commercial buildings and other works by Marcel Breuer .
The Ariston Club is a building in Mar del Plata, Argentina designed by Marcel Breuer. [1] [2] It is part of the Modern Movement, [3] [4] [5] and complies with four of the five Le Corbusier's Points of Architecture: pilotis, free designing of the floor plan, free designing of the façade, horizontal windows. [5] [6] [7] The abandoned Ariston ...
The Marcel Breuer House and Studio is a historic property at 634 Black Pond Road in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. Built in 1949 and enlarged in 1962 to designs by Marcel Breuer, it served as a summer retreat and experimental architecture landscape for the architect until his retirement in 1976. The property remains in the Breuer family, and ...
The architect Marcel Breuer designed the U.S. Courthouse (foreground) and Federal Building (background). The building is a stark but sophisticated example of the Brutalist style of architecture. It exhibits many character-defining features of the style, including rough, exposed exterior concrete walls, deeply recessed windows, and a weighty ...
Wassily chair by Marcel Breuer Marcel Breuer Faltsessel, Chair D4 (1927), from the Bauhaus Dessau Wassily chairs in the Bauhaus of Dessau. The Wassily Chair, also known as the Model B3 chair, was designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925–1926 while he was the head of the cabinet-making workshop at the Bauhaus, in Dessau, Germany.
Marcel Breuer. Long Chair, c. 1935–1936 Brooklyn Museum. The Isokon Long Chair is a chair designed by Marcel Breuer for the Isokon company in 1935–36. The chair is considered one of the most important pieces of furniture to emerge from the inter-war modern movement [1] and it is in the permanent collections of several internationally renowned museums including the Victoria and Albert Museum.