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"Wassily" Armchair
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Title:"Wassily" Armchair
Designer:Marcel Breuer (American (born Hungary), Pécs 1902–1981 New York)
Date:1925
Medium:Chrome-plated steel, canvas upholstery
Dimensions:30 3/4 × 30 1/4 × 26 3/4 in., 15 lb. (78.1 × 76.8 × 67.9 cm, 6.8 kg)
Classification:Furniture
Credit Line:Purchase, Lita Annenberg Hazen Charitable Trust Gift, 1988
Object Number:1988.256
[Barry Friedman Ltd., New York, until 1988; sold to MMA]
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Design 1925–1945: Selections from the Collection," December 18, 1989–June 1, 1991, no catalogue.
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Modern Metalwork in The Metropolitan Museum of Art," June 1, 1993–April 3, 1994, no catalogue.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "Modern Furniture in the Collection of The Metropolitan Museum of Art," May 3–October 9, 1994, no catalogue (on view until June 6, 1994).
New York. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. "A Century of Design, Part ll: 1925–1950," May 9–October 29, 2000
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Marcel Breuer and a Committee of Twelve Plan a Church
Reviews
How does someone review a memoir? Perhaps by the evident quality of the narrative constructed from old committee minutes. Perhaps by the church building that resulted from the process the narrative documents. Perhaps by attending to the unflagging courage of the actors, who punted only occasionally. Read this memoir. It measures up on all counts.
Mary Collins, OSB, American Benedictine Review
The genesis of one of the most important church buildings of the twentieth century, the soaring concrete abbey church at St. John's University in Collegeville, is recounted with clarity and wit.
Minnesota History
This first-hand account of the inner workings of a building committee responsible for one of the key Catholic churches of the twentieth-century is a rare and special treat. Father Thimmesh has given us a new understanding of what it means to be an enlightened and knowledgeable patron. I commend him for his even-handed presentation of events surrounding this commission, both the good and the difficult. His disc
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MARCEL LAJOS (LAJKO) BREUER, FAIA (1902-1981)
Born in Pecs, Hungary, Marcel Breuer set off for Vienna in 1920 to study art but disliked the atmosphere at the Vienna Academy of Fine Arts. In 1921 he went to the Bauhaus School in Weimer, Germany, founded by Walter Gropius, known for holistic teaching of the arts and architecture as a profession and as a lifestyle. After graduating from the Bauhaus with a Masters of Architecture degree in 1924, Breuer moved to Paris to study. Gropius invited Breuer back to the Bauhaus in 1925 to work as Master of the Carpentry Shop where he made a great impression on the world of design with the iconic tubular steel chair inspired by bicycle handlebars, an icon which would become known as the Breuer (aka Cesca, named for his daughter Francesca) chair, below left. With the nickname of Lajko (pronounced loy-ko), his Wassilly chair, below right, was also popular.
Breuer married Martha Erps in 1926. They left Berlin in 1932, left Germany for London in 1935, and left the UK for the US in 1937 after Gropius invited him to teach at Harvard's Gradu
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