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Despite the widespread popular belief that one of the most famous of Breuer's tubular steel chairs, the Wassily Chair was designed for Breuer's friend [5] Wassily Kandinsky, it was not; Kandinsky admired Breuer's finished chair design, and only then did Breuer make an additional copy for Kandinsky's use in his home. When the chair was re ...
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.
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; 1950 Lauck House – Princeton, New Jersey – based upon the MoMA House
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.
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.
B55 Cantilever chair by Marcel Breuer. A cantilever chair is a chair whose seating and framework are not supported by the typical arrangement of 4 legs, but instead is held erect and aloft by a single leg or legs that are attached to one end of a chair's seat and bent in an L shape, thus also serving as the chair's supporting base.
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 communal kitchen was converted into the Isobar restaurant in 1937, to a design by Marcel Breuer and F. R. S. Yorke. The flats and particularly the Isobar became renowned as a centre for socialist intellectual and artistic life in Hampstead. Regular visitors to the Isobar included nearby residents Henry Moore, Barbara Hepworth and Ben Nicholson.