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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 ...
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. The property remains in the Breuer family, and ...
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.
945 Madison Avenue, also known as the Breuer Building, is a museum building on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City.The Marcel Breuer-designed structure was built to house the Whitney Museum of American Art; it subsequently held a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and from 2021 to March 2024 was the temporary quarters of the Frick Collection while the Henry Clay Frick House ...
Wolfson Trailer House is a 1949 house designed by the pioneering modernist Marcel Breuer in Salt Point, New York, United States.Commissioned by Breuer's friend, the artist Sydney Wolfson, it is among the most distinctive of Breuer's residential designs.
Smith said that the Met excelled at "bringing older art to life" and that the Met Breuer's cautious opening exhibit showed unclear goals for the new building. [19] Wallpaper cited the renovations involved in the opening as being more representative of Breuer's design for the building, with a lower level sunken garden and a more welcoming ...
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]