As usual, on Mondays we have a special rubric regarding the 20th century best designers. We have already featured incredible works from internationally known designers. We hope you are enjoying it so far and that we can surpass your expectations. This time we will be letting you know about Marcel Breuer’s work. He was a Hungarian-born modernist, architect and furniture designer.
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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 popular architects at the peak of 20th-Century design.
The name may not be familiar to all of us, but the bent tubular steel chair is no stranger in our lives. Breuer is also responsible for the Whitney Museum of American Art building (1966) uptown, which is a familiar façade for New York City aesthetes and civilians alike.
First recognized for his invention of bicycle-handlebar-inspired tubular steel furniture, Breuer lived off his design fees at a time in the late 1920s and early 1930s when the architectural commissions he was looking for were few and far-between. He was known to such giants as Le Corbusier and Mies van der Rohe, whose architectural vocabulary he was later to adapt as part of his own.
It was Gropius who assigned Breuer interiors at the 1927 Weissenhofsiedlung and led him to his first house assignment for the Harnischmachers in Wiesbaden in 1932. Sigfried Giedion extended their furniture collaboration at the Wohnbedarf in Zurich to include a furniture showroom and the great Dolderthal apartments just outside of town.
Throughout the almost 30 years and nearly 100 buildings that followed, Breuer worked with a number of partners and associates with whom he openly and insistently shared design credit: Pier Luigi Nervi at UNESCO; Herbert Beckhard, Robert Gatje, Hamilton Smith and Tician Papachristou in New York, Mario Jossa and Harry Seidler in Paris. Their contribution to his life work has largely been credited properly, though the critics and public rightly recognized a “Breuer Building” when they saw one.
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20th Century best designers: Marcel Breuer
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