Marcel Breuer traces the career of one of modernism's most disciplined form-givers, from his landmark tubular steel furniture to the "binuclear" housing typology that redefined domestic space across Europe and the United States.
About This Book
Marcel Breuer occupies a singular position in 20th-century design: a figure who moved fluidly between the scales of a chair and a city block without losing his formal intelligence. This compact but precise volume examines the projects that made him a modernist touchstone — works characterised by a careful calibration of texture, colour, and form, and by the productive tension between local material culture and an internationalist design vocabulary. For architects, designers, and students tracing the lineage of modernist spatial thinking, this is essential grounding in how Breuer reconciled the handmade with the industrial, the monumental with the domestic.
Key Features
- 96 pages of project documentation and critical analysis spanning furniture and architectural works
- Published by Taschen, ISBN 9783836544733
What You'll Discover
- How Breuer's tubular steel furniture established a new grammar for modernist industrial design
- The logic behind the "binuclear" housing plan and its influence on mid-century domestic architecture
- Breuer's method of balancing rough and smooth, local and global materiality across built works in Europe and the United States
- The through-line connecting his furniture practice to his architectural projects — a consistency of formal thinking across vastly different scales
About the Author
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Specifications
- Format: Hardcover
- Pages: 96
- Dimensions: 210 x 260 mm
- Language: English
- ISBN: 9783836544733
- Publisher: Taschen
- Publication Date: [Details available upon request]
Perfect For: Architects and design students studying modernist precedents, furniture and interior designers interested in the industrial design canon, and collectors building a Taschen modernism library.