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Crofton Gane, Chairman of the P. E. Gane Furniture Co., asked Breuer and Yorke to design his company's pavilion for the 1936 Royal Agricultural Show in Bristol. The four room pavilion was meant to showcase Gane's furniture. It consisted of a number of sliding planes constructed of local fieldstone. The form, if not the material, was likely influenced by Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion of 1929. The only curved element of the composition was the outside wall of the living room. One corner of the design featured an open-air terrace roofed with a pergola, which rested on part of the supporting pier. The floors and some of the interior walls were faced with birch plywood. Full-length sliding glass panels opened to the terrace and garden and created a pleasing contrast of texture and transparency with the stone and plywood walls.