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Contractor. Breuer invited Ibsen to submit an estimate for the construction of the Clark House.

Farm and Home Work Shop Div., Lavallee and Ide, Inc.

Executive Director, National Capitol Housing Authority. Breuer offered Ihlder his services for a slum clearance study and housing project in Washington, D.C.

Architect who wrote to Breuer in 1955 asking for advice on practicing architecture in Holland.

Vice-President, The Ingalls Iron Works Co. Ingalls hoped to provide structural steel for the Black Mountain College project, but Gropius and Breuer's design was never built.

Secretary, The American Institute of Architects.

Employee, Irving and Casson - A. H. Davenport Co. His company supplied furniture for projects such as the entrance hall of the B. B. Chemical Co. and the first Geller House.

Sales Manager, Illuminating Engineering Co. His company supplied lighting fixtures for the Grosse Pointe Public Library.

Employee, William Intner Co., Inc. Intner's company supplied mattresses and box springs for projects like the Wolfson Trailer House and the Ferry Cooperative Dormitory at Vassar College.

Employee, William Intner Co., Inc. Intner's company supplied mattresses and box springs for projects like the Mills House and the Wolfson Trailer House.

Consulting architect for the Whitney Museum of American Art.

1911 - 1986

Architect and city planner. Isaacs studied architecture at the University of Minnesota and Harvard's Graduate School of Design. He went on to receive a degree in planning from the University of Chicago. Isaacs career was devoted to planning and housing projects in places as far flung as Chicago and the Virgin Islands. In 1951, he became the Charles Dyer Norton Professor of Regional Planning at...

Patent lawyer who helped Breuer with patent applications for his furniture in various European countries and America.

Employee, United Electric Co. His company supplied ventilating fans for the kitchen of the Weizenblatt House.

Itkin Brothers, Inc. His company supplied office furniture and equipment for the Weintraub Agency offices.

1888 - 1967

Swiss artist, teacher and theorist. Itten studied with Adolf Hölzl, an early proponent of abstraction. In 1916, he founded moved to Vienna and established an art school in which he incorporated the teachings of educational theorists such as Fröbel, Pestalozzii and Montessori. Upon the suggestion of his wife, Alma Mahler, Gropius hired Itten to teach at the Bauhaus in 1919. Itten developed the Vorkurs or preliminary...