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Curbed Maps: Remembering Marcel Breuer and His Unique Brand of Modern
(1966) Photo: Syracuse University/ ArchDaily Born 111 years ago yesterday, the late architect and furniture designer Marcel Breuer is a controversial figure in the history of modernism, credited by some with popularizing the maligned brutalist style, while 5/22/13 from Curbed Read more »
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The Billion-Dollar Cubist Gift: Donor-Wise
galleries there had been named for Lauder in the past. It did come with strings — it “required the museum not to sell its Marcel Breuer building on Madison Avenue at 75th Street for an extended period.” But it also came with this little item: “The gift includes from ArtInfo Read more »
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Eileen Gray – Transat Chair
Transat chair is from the late 1920s, when Marcel Breuer, Le Corbusier and Charlotte Perriand were forging in tubular steel assertive icons of the machine age. Transat, with its spare timber frame and graceful curve of fabric, had more subtle ambitions. Gray, from Ouno Design Read more »
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Awards: Seven Weird Facts About 2013 Pritzker Prize Winner Toyo Ito
commissioned Yoshinobu Ashihara to design their home. Ashihara had previously been employed in the studio of noted modernist Marcel Breuer. (An aside: tarchitect Richard Meier, who went on to win the Pritzker in 1984, also worked in Breuer's studio.) The house from Curbed Read more »
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Celebrating Harry Seidler, the Architect Who Brought the Bauhaus to Australia
parses out Seidler’s personal journey out from under the wings of Walter Gropius (pictured left with a young Seidler) and Marcel Breuer to his years spent developing ideas with the likes of Oscar Niemeyer and Pier Luigi Nervi , to his rise to becoming the from ArtInfo Read more »
