Classic designs are around for a reason. Why one piece becomes a sensation over another is always a matter of debate. In the case of Hungarian-born designer Marcel Breuer, his Wassily chair began as a ...

The Abbey Church of St. John the Baptist at Saint John’s University (Photograph by Greg Becker) In 1953, Saint John’s University, in Minnesota, invited 12 well-known architects to come to Saint John’s ...

Then, inside the museum’s show, the deep collections of the Vitra Design Museum will take you back to Breuer’s beginnings with a series of revelatory chairs he made at the 1920s Bauhaus, where he ran ...

At a time when quite a few mid-century Modernist structures are threatened with demolition, a new retrospective exhibition at the National Building Museum in Washington, D.C., aims to remind people of ...

Thanks to a wealth of archived photos and other documents, the owner of this Marcel Breuer-designed Mid-Century Modern masterpiece was able to match the original designs when he gave it a complete ...

It may not look like it, but you can draw a straight line from Marcel Breuer's classic chair designs of the 1920s to the off-kilter concrete box that, in 1966, became home to New York's Whitney Museum ...

The Isokon Furniture Company is reissuing a bent plywood armchair designed by Marcel Breuer 80 years ago. Featuring simple storage spaces within its bent plywood arms, the chair capitalized on a then ...

Marcel Breuer was a Hungarian architect and furniture designer, best known for the iconic design of what is now known as the Breuer Building. Located at the corner of Madison Avenue and 75th Street in ...

While Marcel Breuer’s reputation suffered a decline after his death in 1981, it has picked up in recent years. In this collection of essays, Columbia University architecture historian Barry Bergdoll, ...

To get to the Wellfleet cottage designed by renowned Modernist architect Marcel Breuer, you drive a mile into the pitch-pine woods over a road of sand. Five stairs ascend to the entry deck. On the ...