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    Marcel Breuer was an influential exponent of the International Style who experimented with new materials and forms to create expressive architecture for the industrial age. He is known for the "Wassily" chair, the first tubular steel chair designed for residential use that achieved harmony using a minimum of materials inspired by bicycle handles. Breuer often exaggerated functional and structural characteristics in his designs of private homes, public buildings, churches and museums, sometimes producing overly articulated buildings that lacked proportional sensitivity.

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    Marcel Breuer was an influential exponent of the International Style who experimented with new materials and forms to create expressive architecture for the industrial age. He is known for the "Wassily" chair, the first tubular steel chair designed for residential use that achieved harmony using a minimum of materials inspired by bicycle handles. Breuer often exaggerated functional and structural characteristics in his designs of private homes, public buildings, churches and museums, sometimes producing overly articulated buildings that lacked proportional sensitivity.

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    Marcel Breuer

    Marcel Breuer is one of the most influential exponents of the International Style, concerned with applying new forms and uses to newly developed technology and materials in order to create an expressive art of an industrial age. Breuer received both criticism and accolades for a style that oscillated between feather-light and rock-solid. He was concerned with both visual and the physical stability of his designs, and he used every opportunity to play with form and space.
    Marcel Breuer Minimalist desk

    The strength and light weight of his bicycle inspired him to experiment tubular steel in furniture design. One of his best-known works is the "Wassily" chair (named after Wassily Kandinsky, the Bauhaus master for whose home the chair was originally designed). The tubular-steel chair, designed for residential use, was the first of its kind. Functional, linear, and solid in space, the "Wassily" chair was inspired by bicycle handlebars. It achieves a state of harmony by using a minimum amount of materials. Its design incorporates the influences of various artistic movements -- the starkness of Bauhaus, the intersecting planes of De Stijl, and the exposed framework of the Constructivists. Breuer's subsequent works involved a vigorous search for atypical forms, and he often exaggerated the functional and the structural characteristics of his designs. In designing private homes, public buildings, churches, and museums, Breuer often applied a three-dimensional "moulded architectural form" to their facades in order to create a unique sense of depth. This technique sometimes produced overly articulated or ponderously shaped buildings (for example, Minnesota's Saint John's Abbey Church and France's IBM Research Centre) instead of proportional sensitivity.

    Marcel Breuer Slatted chair

    Breuer was honoured as the first architect to be the sole artist of an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Breuer's architecture has become known for sculptural monumentality at the expense of human scale.
    Marcel Breuer IBM Research Centre, France

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