Marcel Breuer
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Marcel Lajos Breuer was a Hungarian-American modernist architect and furniture designer. He moved to the United States in 1937 and became a naturalized American citizen in 1944.
Isokon Flats, Hampstead, London
Marcel Breuer. Long Chair, ca. 1935–36 Brooklyn Museum
945 Madison Avenue
Robert C. Weaver Federal Building, the headquarters of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development
Bauhaus
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The Staatliches Bauhaus, commonly known as the Bauhaus, was a German art school operational from 1919 to 1933 that combined crafts and the fine arts. The school became famous for its approach to desig
Marcel Breuer
…Hungarian-American modernist architect and furniture designer. He moved to the United States in 1937 and became a naturalized American citizen in 1944. At the Bauhaus he designed the Wassily Chair and the Cesca Chair, which The New York Times have called some of the most important chairs of the 20th century. Breuer…
The Bauhaus building in Dessau was designed by Walter Gropius. It was the longest-serving of the three Bauhaus locations (1925–1932).
Typography by Herbert Bayer above the entrance to the workshop block of the Bauhaus Dessau, 2005
Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius (1883–1969)
Poster for the Bauhausausstellung (1923)