Marcel Breuer

The proposal was to design a cabin on a nine hectares plot for the Chamberlain family, just outside Wayland, Massachusetts. In the letter received by Marcel Breuer to issue the order, Harvard Professor Chamberlain and his wife asked him to make them a porch like Breuer’s own house at Lincoln. The Chamberlain affectionately called his […]

In a series of institutional masterworks, Marcel Breuer sought to reconcile vernacular tradition with contemporary expression and an acceptance of the complexity of modern life.

Marcel Breuer

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Image 3 of 20 from gallery of The Met Breuer: A Loving Restoration of a Mid-Century Icon. © The Metropolitan Museum of Art 2016

Chair designed by Marcel Breuer circa 1926 and manufactured by Tecta. Tubular steel, fabric. In good original condition, with minor wear consistent with age and use, preserving a beautiful patina. Marcel Lajos Breuer (1902–1981), was a Hungarian-born modernist, architect and furniture designer. One of the masters of Modernism, Breuer extended the sculptural vocabulary he had developed in the carpentry shop at the Bauhaus into a personal architecture that made him one of the world's most…

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In a series of institutional masterworks, Marcel Breuer sought to reconcile vernacular tradition with contemporary expression and an acceptance of the complexity of modern life.

In this rich examination of the work of Marcel Breuer, Barry Bergdoll explores the marked shifts between his early European and later American work, and finds a constant in the pursuit of lightness. In his efforts to reconcile vernacular traditions with modern expression and the conditions of...

As a designer I've always had a great admiration for those who were able to transform objects of the daily life into art pieces.Here I present my tribute to the seats I love.

After receiving a few new books in the shop I decided to highlight one in-particular, that being a new publication by Vitra Design Museum titled ‘Marcel Breuer – Design and Architecture’. It’s a book that I highly anticipated myself as a lot of Marcel’s architecture has gone slightly unnoticed, we all tend to talk about his furniture but never his buildings. So this book amalgamates both, separating his work in to two sections and talks ...