Le Corbusier's Copy

MARCEL BREUER: ARCHITECT AND DESIGNER

Peter Blake

Peter Blake: MARCEL BREUER: ARCHITECT AND DESIGNER. New York: Architectural Record/Museum of Modern Art, 1949. Quarto. Photographically-printed stiff wrappers. 128 pp. 196 photographs. A good copy with spine nearly perished. Textblock bright and secure. Inscribed to Le Corbusier on front endpaper. Although uncalled for, Xanti Schawinskyıs signature on front free endpaper as well.

First edition (issued simultaneously in cloth). Ink inscription from author: "For M. Le Corbusier / in gratitude and appreciation / for all he has done to inspire / young architects everywhere. / New York, February 15th, 1950 /."

From 1948 to 1950, Blake curated MoMAıs Department of Architecture and Industrial Design where he had access to the Breuer material in the museumıs collection and to Breuer himself. This volume was Blakeıs first book; he would author 17 more, including LE CORBUSIER, ARCHITECTURE AND FORM.

8.5 x 11 softcover book with 128 pages with 196 b/w illustrations and plans, and an extensive bibliography, includes a list of his major works and statements made by Breuer on the subject of modern architecture.

Contents:

• Preface
• Marcel Breuer: Architect and Designer
• 1902-1920
• 1920-1928
• 1928-1932
• 1932-1935
• 1935-1937
• 1937-1941
• 1941-1949
• List of Marcel Breuer's Major Works
• Statements by Marcel Breuer
• Bibliography -- compiled by Hannah B. Muller
• Illustration Credits
• 14) Index

Includes information and images pertainig to the following Breuer projects: Thost House, Hamburg; L. Moholy-Nagy House; Haselhorts Housing, Apartments; Bauhaus Masters Housing; Bamboos Row Houses; Piscator Apartment; De Francesco Apartment, Berlin; Harnischmacher House, Wiesbaden; Werkbund Exhibition, Paris; Potsdamer Platz, Berlin; Elberfeld Hospital; Kharkov Theatre Project; Dolderthal Apartments, Zurich; Budapest Spring Fair Buildings; Wohnbedarf Furniture Store, Zurich; the Bristol pavilion; Stacking Isokon Chairs, 1935; Wheaton College Art Center, 1938; Civic Center of the Future, 1936; Haggerty House, Cohasset, Mass; Fischer House, Newton, Mass; Ford House, Lincoln, Mass; Breuer House, Lincoln, Mass 1939; Tompkins House, Hewlett Harbor, NY; Berlin Building Exhibition; Chamberlain Cottage, Wayland, Mass; Black Mountain College, North Carolina, 1939; Frank House, Pittsburgh, PA; Plas-2-Point Prefabricated House, 1942; Yankee Portable Prefabricated House, 1942; Multi-lens Window, Berlin; Stuyvesant Town, New York; Serviceman's Memorial, Cambridge, Mass; Bi-nuclear House, Floor Plans; Geller House, Lawrence, New York; Robinson House, Williamstown, Mass; Beach Restaurants, Mar del Plata, Argentina; Breuer House, New Canaan, Conn; and the Exhibition House in the Garden of the Museum of Modern Art, 1949.

Also includes work by Naum Gabo, Johannes Itten, Kasimir Malevich, Theo van Doesburg, Gerrit Rietveld, Paul Klee, Herbert Bayer, Wassily Kandinsky, Le Corbusier, Mies van der Rohe, Piet Mondrian and others.

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