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 […]
Born in Hungary, May 21, 1902, Marcel Breuer continues to influence modern design and interior furnishing. Find out how in this short profile.
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 […]
Mr. Snower, commissioned this house to Architect Marcel Breuer in 1953, while he was also working at the famous UNESCO headquarters in Paris. Today, Architect Matthew Hufft tells us about the recent renovation he supervised for the current owners of the Snower house.
The courtyard captures nature within the embrace of the house, a "room" of green that is simultaneously indoors and outdoors. Photo 4 of 9 in Marcel Breuer Hooper House II. Browse inspirational photos of modern homes.
With an “X” geometry, the Marcel Breuer building is open to the DC urban fabric with a double symmetry. However, because of its relation with the context, the building creates different urban landscapes. The brutalist shape of its facade rests over few thick sculptured concrete columns that allow pedestrians to walk between the four concave […]
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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.
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Marcel Breuer is best known for designing the original Whitney Museum of Art, but he also designed homes, like this modern stone residence in Connecticut.
Mr. Snower, commissioned this house to Architect Marcel Breuer in 1953, while he was also working at the famous UNESCO headquarters in Paris. Today, Architect Matthew Hufft tells us about the recent renovation he supervised for the current owners of the Snower house.
Source If you happen to be taking a backroad shortcut from Walden Pond through the woods to the DeCordova Museum in Lincoln, Mass., you'll most likely buzz past this modern house tucked among the old Colonials. Since I learned about the Walter Gropius house in Lincoln, I've wanted to go take a tour of this National Historic Landmark. Walter Gropius, if not a familiar name, was the founder of the Bauhaus School of architecture whose faculty included Paul Klee, Josef Albers and Wassily Kandinsky to name a few. Gropius escaped Nazi Germany in 1937 and came to Cambridge where he taught at the Harvard School of Design with Marcel Breuer. I'm sure you know Breuer's Wassily and Cesca chairs even if you're not familiar with his architecture. Gropius' house in Lincoln was built in 1938. The sculpture in front of the house is by Richard Filipowski and was installed by Gropius in the 1950s. The sculpture is titled "Winter Pine." Side of house looking into the living room and upstairs deck. View of rear of house. The oak was planted when the house was built. Interior photos of the house are not allowed on the tour but I've borrowed a few from the Historic New England website. The house has been maintained as it was at the time of Gropius' death in 1969. Just inside the front door is Gropius' office. The chairs are Saarinen. The living room with picture windows that beautifully frame a view of the back yard and forest beyond. The chair is a Saarinen Womb chair. I should have asked about the white leather sofa because I loved it. View from the dining room looking back in to the living room. See the little vents just below the dining room windows? Gropius had a second heating system just to keep the windows frost-free in the wintertime. The kitchen is very fun. Small but adequate. Another windows that frames a view of the landscape. One of the period bathrooms. Notice the typical Bauhaus palette of black, white, gray and red. The dressing room and master bedroom is set up as if his wife Ise would be right back to get ready to entertain guests that evening. Her Merimekko dress is laid out on the bed. A shot of daughter Ati's room. I love that wall light! View of the back of the house. I would highly recommend taking the tour; it's a 1969 moment frozen in time. A one-hour tour is $10. Gropius House 68 Baker Bridge Road Lincoln, Mass. 01773 It's privately owned (so not open to the public) but just down the road is the Marcel Breuer house. It's well worth a walk down the road just to see it.
Marcel Lajos Breuer ( 22 May 1902 1 July 1981), was a Hungarianborn modernist, architect, and furniture designer. 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 popular architects
Marcel Breuer, architect and designer, one of the most-influential exponents of the International Style; he was concerned with applying new forms and uses to newly developed technology and materials in order to create an art expressive of an industrial age. From 1920 to 1928 Breuer studied and then
Marcel Breuer designed and built this house for himself and his family in Lincoln, Massachusetts in 1939. . . . the house is sited adjacent to the house of Breuer's good friend Walter Gropius worth viewing LARGE
A large rectangular cut in the back wall of the house creates views from the entrance through a courtyard to the trees and lake beyond. Photo 2 of 9 in Marcel Breuer Hooper House II. Browse inspirational photos of modern homes.
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The main branch building of the Atlanta-Fulton Public Library System was one of Bauhaus-trained architect Marcel Breuer's last designs.
Unique prototype desk, sycamore veneered plywood and chromium plated tubular metal, with glass top, designed by Marcel Breuer and made by PE Gane Ltd for Isokon, Britain, 1936
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.
