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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.
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.
The Wassily Chair, also known as the Model B3 chair, was designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925–26 while he was the head of the cabinet-making workshop at the Bauhaus, in Dessau, Germany. This piece is particularly influential because it introduces a simple, yet elegant and light-weight industrial material to be used in structures within the ...
One of the most important contributions of the Bauhaus is in the field of modern furniture design. The characteristic Cantilever chair and Wassily Chair designed by Marcel Breuer are two examples. (Breuer eventually lost a legal battle in Germany with Dutch architect/designer Mart Stam over patent rights to the cantilever chair design. Although ...
Breuer was a Hungarian-German architect and furniture designer known for his use of bent, tubular steel to create his furniture. He spent summers at the house from 1949 until he died in 1981 at 79.
The Alan I W Frank House is a private residence in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, designed by Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius and partner Marcel Breuer, two of the pioneering masters of 20th-century architecture and design. This spacious, multi-level residence, its furnishings and landscaping were all created by Gropius and Breuer as a 'Total Work of ...
The furniture Breuer designed whilst at Isokon are highly influential pieces of the modernist movement, and included chairs, tables and the Long and Short Chair. László Moholy-Nagy , another former Bauhaus teacher who also lived briefly in the building with his wife Sibyl Moholy-Nagy and daughter Hattula, became involved with Isokon when he ...