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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Legendary modernist architect Marcel Breuer designed one of his most striking residential properties, the Stillman House, in idyllic Litchfield, Connecticut. Constructed between 1950 and 1953, the ...

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, ...

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 ...

The former home of Greta Garbo is back on the market. The Swedish screen siren lived in a fifth-floor apartment at The Campanile on 450 East 52nd Street, from 1954 until her death, in 1990. Built in ...