• Marcel Lajos Breuer (/ˈbrɔɪ.ər/ BROY-ər; 21 May 1902 – 1 July 1981) was a Hungarian-German modernist architect and furniture designer. He moved to the...
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    chronological list of houses, commercial buildings and other works by Marcel Breuer. 1921 The African chair with Gunta Stölzl (while still a student) 1923...
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    Building: a former office building designed by modernist architect Marcel Breuer. The structure is a noted example of Brutalist architecture. Since its...
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    faculty. Marcel Breuer, who had worked with him at the Bauhaus, joined him and opened an office in Cambridge. The fame of Gropius and Breuer attracted...
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    Cesca chair (category Marcel Breuer furniture)
    and designer Marcel Breuer. It consists of a tubular steel frame and a rattan seat and backing. The design was named as a tribute to Breuer’s adopted daughter...
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    architecture. Prominent artists and designers from the Bauhaus include: Marcel Breuer, Marianne Brandt, Hannes Meyer (who was Gropius's successor, only to...
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    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...
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    Stillman House (category Marcel Breuer buildings)
    Stillman House (1950) follows Marcel Breuer’s Gregory Ain demonstration “House in the Garden” built the year before for the MOMA Museum, which now sits...
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  • and is the work of Bauhaus architect, Marcel Breuer seconded by his Parisian associate Mario Jossa. It is Breuer's only private residence in France. Constructed...
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  • politician Mala Breuer (1927–2017), American artist Marcel Breuer (1902–1981), Hungarian-born American architect and furniture designer Marco Breuer (born 1966)...
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    (designed by Marcel Breuer, 1936) Isokon Dining Table (designed by Marcel Breuer, 1936) Isokon Stacking Chair (designed by Marcel Breuer, 1936) Isokon...
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    Wassily Chair (category Marcel Breuer furniture)
    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...
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    exhibit clean lines and a "concern for uncluttered interior spaces". Marcel Breuer, a recognized leader in Béton Brut (Brutalist) architecture and notable...
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    tubular steel remains the prime choice for the cantilever chair with Marcel Breuer being perhaps the greatest champion of this design technique; using...
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    The Met Breuer opened in March 2016 in the Breuer Building formerly occupied by the Whitney Museum of American Art, designed by Marcel Breuer and completed...
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    Madison Avenue on Manhattan's Upper East Side in a building designed by Marcel Breuer and Hamilton P. Smith. The museum closed in October 2014 to relocate...
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    associated with federal modernism include Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer, Walter Gropius, and Victor Lundy. Federal modernism has been criticized...
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    The Marcel Breuer House II, also known as the New Canaan Breuer House I, is a historic house at 122 Sunset Hill Road in New Canaan, Connecticut. Built...
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    UNESCO Headquarters (category Marcel Breuer buildings)
    was the combined work of three architects: Bernard Zehrfuss (France), Marcel Breuer (Hungary), and Pier Luigi Nervi (Italy). Plans were also validated by...
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  • Spring Armchair, 19th century office chair Cesca Chair ("Breuer Chair"), designed by Marcel Breuer for Knoll Chaperone chair, a three-seat chair from the...
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    for its use in cloth woven for the tubular-steel chairs designed by Marcel Breuer while he was a teacher at the Bauhaus design school. The yarn is also...
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    Fallingwater. Architects such as Mies van der Rohe, Philip Johnson and Marcel Breuer worked to create beauty based on the inherent qualities of building...
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    Hooper House (Baltimore County, Maryland) (category Marcel Breuer buildings)
    philanthropist Edith Hooper, and designed by architects Marcel Breuer and Herbert Beckhard. Breuer had designed an addition to the Hoopers' prior home in...
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    der Rohe, Florence Knoll, Frank Gehry, Charles Gwathmey, Maya Lin, Marcel Breuer, Eero Saarinen, and Lella and Massimo Vignelli, under the company's...
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    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...
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  • requested that celebrated Bauhaus architect Marcel Breuer design a new priory building. At the time, Breuer was finishing the new abbey and several university...
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  • Connecticut in the 1940s: John M. Johansen, Marcel Breuer, Landis Gores, Philip Johnson and Eliot Noyes. Marcel Breuer was an instructor at the Harvard Graduate...
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    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...
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  • Geller I (category Marcel Breuer buildings)
    American works by architect Marcel Breuer, designed in 1945. It was demolished in 2022. It was one of the first to employ Breuer's concept of the 'binuclear'...
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    Pennsylvania, designed by Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius and partner Marcel Breuer, two of the pioneering masters of 20th-century architecture and design...
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