Finnish architect and designer and wife of Alvar Aalto. She and her husband pioneered techniques for manufacturing plywood furniture, many of which inspired Breuer in his work for the Isokon furniture company. In 1935, she and her husband, along with Maire Gullichsen and Nils-Gustav Hal, founded the furniture company Artek with the goal "to sell furniture and to promote a modern culture of habitation by exhibitions and...
Finnish architect and designer. He attended the Polytechnic in Helsinki, graduating in 1921. Through his involvement with CIAM (Congrès internationaux d'architecture moderne), he became acquainted with some of Breuer’s friends including Carola and Sigfried Giedion and László Maholy-Nagy. With his wife, Aino, and the joiner, Otto Korhonen, Aalto pioneered techniques for manufacturing plywood furniture, many of which inspired Breuer in his work for the Isokon furniture...
Draftsman in Breuer's office c. 1963. He later became an editor at Architecture Plus, founded by Peter Blake, and at Interior Design.
Abramovitz studied architecture at the University of Illinois (BS 1929), Columbia University (MS1931) and the École des Beaux-Arts (1932-34). After graduating, he took a job at Corbett, Harrison and MacMurray. A year later he followed Wallace Harrison to his new partnership with J. André Fouilhoux, becoming a partner himself in 1941. Fouilhoux died four years later, at which point the remaining partners formed the firm of...
President, Emerson Radio Corp. He discussed the possibility of Breuer designing external casings for his company's four basic radio sets.
Manufacturer of draperies, curtains and upholstery. He supplied draperies for the Grosse Pointe Public Library.
Employee, William A. Adam Co., plumbing and heating contractor. His firm wanted to bid on the Grosse Pointe Public Library.
Executive, Adelman's. His company supplied fireplace screens and equipment for the Grosse Pointe Public Library.
Owner, M. Raymond Adler and Co. His contracting firm wanted to bid on the Wolfson Trailer House.
Breuer met Dr. Adorni on his trip to South America trip in 1947, during which he gave lectures on housing and urban planning at the University of Buenos Aires. Dr. Adorni invited Breuer to organize a new school of architecture and urban planning at the Universidad de La Plata.
Director, Maison de l'Artisan. His organization replaced the Comptoir Artisanal Marocain, from which Breuer occasionally obtained Moroccan textiles.
Born in Berlin, Anni Albers studied at the Bauhaus beginning in 1922. She entered the weaving workshop as that was the only workshop open to women but quickly she became well-known for her abstract wall hangings and textiles. Her textiles created decorative patterns based upon the underlying grid structure inherent in the weaving process. She also experimented with the inclusion of new materials such as synthetic...
Josef Albers was born in Bottrop, a small town in the heavily industrial Ruhr region of Germany. He studied at the Royal Art School in Berlin and the Kunstgewerbeschule in Essen before enrolling at the Bauhaus in 1920. By 1922, he was running the glass workshop where he designed geometric assemblages in stained and sandblasted glass. He also designed furniture and other household objects. Walter...
Employee of The Albert A. Albrecht Co., the contractor for the Grosse Pointe Library.
Executive, Alexander Building Corp. Alexander hoped to bid on the Marshad House.
Employee, Knoll Associates, Inc. Knoll was one of the earliest suppliers of modern furniture in the United States and provided furniture for many of Breuer's projects.
Professor of Fine Arts, Lafayette College. Allen requested permission to visit Breuer's Lincoln house.
Employee, Cambridge Electric Light Co. They provided information on electric facilities for the site of the proposed Cambridge War Memorial.
Administrative Secretary, The Commission on Community Interrelations (CCI) of the American Jewish Congress. Breuer renovated the offices of the Commission in the mid-1940s.
Employee, The Commission on Community Interrelations (CCI) of the American Jewish Congress. Breuer renovated the offices of the Commission in the mid-1940s.
Allen purchased a Breuer-designed Isokon dining table when Jack Pritchard sold off the remaining Isokon stock in 1946.
Representative of the Hawaiian Society. Breuer requested information from the society on fiber mats for the Frank House.
Employee, Kohn and Mundus, Inc. His firm produced Breuer's designs for tubular steel chairs.
Employee , Herman Miller Furniture Co. Herman Miller was one of the earliest suppliers of modern furniture in the United States and provided furniture for many of Breuer's projects.
Author of books on modern furnishings and interior decoration. He requested photographs of recent furniture designs.
Employee, Accounting Department, Hope's Windows, Inc. His company supplied windows for many of Breuer's projects.
Dealer of General Electric appliances. He supplied a kitchen unit and water heater for the Chamberlain Cottage.
In 1944, Breuer formed a short-lived partnership with Anderson, who was an architect and a professor at MIT. The two men collaborated on a single project, a design for a war memorial for Cambridge, Massachusetts. Anderson contributed landscape design for the project, which was never built due to high costs and local discomfort with the starkly modern design.
Deputy Director, The Central Institute of Art and Design. Jack Pritchard asked him for advice on possible lecture opportunities during Breuer's proposed visit to England in 1947.
Employee, Ministry of Public Works, Bogotá, Colombia. Breuer worked as a consultant to the city for projects such as markets, housing and a medical center. Andrade arranged the details of Breuer’s temporary employment.
Eastern District Manager, the Martin-Senour Co. His company sponsored the painting and decoration for the House in the Museum Garden.
Photographer. He photographed the first Stillman House, the Pack House and the Ferry Cooperative Dormitory at Vassar.
Construction Supervisor, E. L. Bruce Co. He provided advice on the application of wood floors on concrete slabs containing radiant heat panels.
Employee, William Gold, Inc. His company supplied carpets for a number of Breuer projects, including the Ferry Cooperative Dormitory at Vassar and the Lauck House.
Manager, Glass Sales, Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. His company supplied the glass for many of Breuer's residential projects.
Sales representative, Sarcotherm Controls, Inc. Sarcotherm provided heating controls for a number of Breuer projects including the Potter House and the Scott House.
Argan planned to write a book on Breuer's work in conjunction with the award of the Compasso d'Oro. Breuer suggested that the recent book "Sun and Shadow" might be translated into Italian instead.
Employee, Edgewood Furniture Co., Inc. Edgewood manufactured custom furniture for projects such as the Pack House and the Wolfson Trailer House.
French artist of German birth. He was trained at the Kunstgewerbeschule in Strasbourg, the Kunstschule in Weimar and the Académie Julian in Paris. He collaborated with the expressionist groups der Blaue Reiter and der Sturm and was involved with Dadaism from its inception. He worked in a number of mediums - painting, collage, sculpture, etc. – often producing abstract compositions or biomorphic shapes. Arp...
An acquaintance of Breuer's from London. Atkinson worked in Maxwell Fry's office on a M.A.R.S. (Modern Architectural Research) Group exhibition. He planned to apply for a Commonwealth Fund Fellowship to study recent developments in American regional and community planning and asked Breuer for advice.
City manager, City of Cambridge, Mass. He acted as a liaison between the city council and Breuer and Lawrence Anderson, who were designing a war memorial for the city.
Secretary to D. James, Lumium Ltd. His company expressed interest in producing Breuer's furniture.
Master's degree candidate, Department of Decorative Art, the University of California at Berkeley. Atthowe studied the influence of the machine-age aesthetic on textile design and asked Breuer to fill out a questionnaire.