PP/25/4/6 - Master of the life-support machine, Marcel Breuer : Furniture and Interiors

Reference code

PP/25/4/6

Level of description

Item

Title

Master of the life-support machine, Marcel Breuer : Furniture and Interiors

Date/s

1981

Quantity & Format

1 leaf Press cuttings

Personal name

Le Corbusier, 1887-1965
Gropius, Walter, 1883-1969
Breuer, Marcel

Subject

Museum of Modern Art (New York)
Bauhaus
Tubular steel furniture
Plywood furniture
Cesca chair
Exhibitions

Creator

Heilpern, John

Scope and content

Article, 13/8/81, regarding the 1981 Marcel Breuer exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Discusses the early work of Marcel Breuer at the Bauhaus, his tubular steel and plywood furniture. Refers to the cesca chair and includes monochrome photographs of the "Wassily" armchair, the "Dinning Room, Boroschek Apartment, Berlin" and "Breuer himself, at the Bauhaus in the mid-twenties". Discusses the influence of Le Corbusier and his association with Walter Gropius

PP - Pritchard Papers
- PP/25 - Marcel Breuer
  - PP/25/4 - Marcel Breuer, his designs
    - PP/25/4/6 - Master of the life-support machine, Marcel Breuer : Furniture and Interiors

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