La monographie conçue par le Vitra Design Museum rend hommage à la contribution de Breuer à l'histoire du design du XXième siècle mais également à son œuvre architecturale d'une diversité exceptionnelle qui était en grande partie tombée dans l'oubli ces dernière décennies. Le catalogue édité par Alexander von Vegesack et Mathias Remmele tient compte à parts égales des deux aspects du travail de Breuer. Il contient des articles d'experts renommés de Breuer (Joachim Driller, Isabelle Hyman, Otakar Macel entre autres) ainsi que des témoignages personnels de I.M. Pei et de Robert F. Gatje, un des anciens partenaires de Marcel Breuer.
The designer and architect Marcel Breuer (1902-1981) numbers among the most
important and prolific designers of the twentieth century. While today he is
best known for his furniture, he regarded himself first and foremost as an
architect. The tubular steel pieces created by Breuer during his tenure at the
Bauhaus such as the Wassily armchair and also the aluminum and molded plywood
pieces from the 1930s must be counted among the great classics of modernism. In
the thirties, Breuer began a second, highly successful career as an architect.
In the postwar era he was one of the most influential und internationally
renowned architects of his time.
The retrospective produced by the Vitra Design Museum pays tribute to
Breuer's well-known contributions to 20th century design history. Yet it also
brings renewed attention to his architectural works which have fallen somewhat
into oblivion in the past decades.
This catalogue is the first to give proper attention to both areas of Marcel
Breuer's work. "Marcel Breuer - Design and Architecture", includes essays by
several renowned experts on Marcel Breuer, such as Joachim Driller, Isabelle
Hyman, Otakar Má¿el and Barry Bergdoll. In addition to these and several other
essays, the catalogue includes texts by Marcel Breuer and personal accounts by
I.M. Pei and Robert F. Gatje, a former partner of Breuer.
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