Employee of Sigg Részvénytársaság Aluminiumárugyár, a Hungarian manufacturer interested in producing Breuer furniture.
President, Functional Furniture, Inc. Breuer was supposed to be a director in the corporation and was engaged to design a suite of hotel furniture. It is unclear whether the designs were ever built or if Breuer had any further involvement with the firm.
British industrial designer. In 1939, the Architectural Review asked Landauer to report on significant developments in the United States. Landauer asked Breuer for his opinion of Gropius's influence on Harvard and for particulars of their work.
Landsberg studied with Gropius and Breuer at Harvard and worked for them in Cambridge. He left briefly to work for Skidmore, Owings and Merrill before returning to work for Breuer in New York. He worked on numerous projects such as the first Breuer House in New Canaan, Conn., the first Gagarin House, the Grosse Pointe Public Library, the Ferry Cooperative Dormitory and the House in the Museum...
Manager, Sales Promotion Department, Josam Manufacturing Co. , manufacturer of drains and drainage facilities.
Executive at Monsanto Chemical Co. He consulted on the Plas-2-Point House and gave lectures on plastics to Breuer's students at Harvard.
Langille Brothers. Breuer invited Langille to submit an estimate for the construction of the Breuer House in Lincoln, MA., but the contract was awarded to Custance Brothers, Inc.
Employee, Standard Laminating Works. His company supplied plywood doors for Breuer's second house in New Canaan, CT.
Owner, Vagn Larsen Interiors. Larsen supplied tassel pull cords for the Ferry Cooperative Dormitory at Vassar College.
In 1949, Lathrop inquired about building a version of the House in the Museum Garden.
Client. In 1950, Lauck asked Breuer to build him a replica of House in the Museum Garden in Princeton, NJ.
Client. In 1950, the Laucks asked Breuer to build a replica of House in the Museum Garden in Princeton, NJ.
French architect. Pierre and his son, Michel, were the associated architects on IBM La Gaude.
Owner, Laverne Originals. Laverne supplied wall paper for the William Weintraub Agency offices.
Technical Director, Housing Authority of the City of Pittsburgh. Law advised Gropius and Breuer on the design of proposed community and maintenance spaces in the Aluminum City Terrace defense housing project.
Client. In 1947, Lawnhurst commissioned a house from Breuer in Greenburgh, NY. Breuer prepared two designs, neither of which were built.
Client. In 1947, the Lawnhursts commissioned a house from Breuer in Greenburgh, NY. Breuer prepared two designs, neither of which were built.
Le Mare purchased a set of the Breuer-designed nesting tables, along with a dining table and chairs when Jack Pritchard sold off the remaining Isokon stock in 1946.
Employee, Gardner Advertising Co. Leach's company prepared an advertisement featuring Breuer's Plas-2-Point house and organized the publication of stories on the project.
Employee, Templar Oil Products Co., Inc. LeCaron advised Anchor Carpet and Linoleum Co. on the installation of acoustical materials for the Weintraub Agency offices.
Employee of Wm. E. Wood Co., the heating and plumbing contractor for the first Hooper House.
Sales Department, The Troy Sunshade Co. LeFevre's employer supplied metal furnishings for the Frank House.
French painter, printmaker , filmmaker and teacher. He practiced in many media but was best known for the Cubist-inspired paintings of the first decades of the twentieth-century and his experimental film, Ballet mécanique (1924). With Amédée Ozenfant, he cofunded the Académie de l’Art Modere in 1924, serving as its director until 1939. He moved to the USA to escape the second World War. In 1945,...
Hungarian architect, who, with Breuer, founded the furniture company, Standard-Möbel (later Standard-Möbel Lengyel and Co.) to sell Breuer’s furniture designs to the public. The company was probably founded sometime in 1926. Lengyel also designed some furniture and there was a brief dispute in 1936-1937 over whether his designs infringed upon Breuer’s patent. It was decided that, at least in France, Lengyel’s chairs did not constitute any...
Engineer in the firm of Wiesenfeld, Hayward and Leon. Leon served as the structural engineer on projects such as the church and campanile at St. John's Abbey. Problems with that commission caused Breuer to sever their professional relationship.
Bamberger, Leroi and Co. A. G. Leroi's firm contributed materials to be exhibited in the Deutsche Werkbund section of the 1930 Paris exhibition organized by the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs.
Swiss architect. He studied architecture with Karl Moser at the Technische Hochschule in Zurich, graduating in 1919) and went on to work in the office of Henri Sauvage for two years. He emigrated to the United States in 1920 and eventually set up a practice in New York. In 1929, he formed a partnership with George Howe. Their most famous building was the Philadelphia Saving...
Chief Project Planner, Chicago Housing Authority. Lesser asked Breuer for his sources on the economic feasibility of high-rise low rent housing after reading an article on the Stuyvesant Six project in Pencil Points.
Employee, Pittsburgh Reflector Co. His company supplied wall urns for projects like the Frank House.
Potential client. In 1954, he approached Breuer about designing a house. Breuer was unable to take the commission and advised Levin that the suggested program would require a larger budget.
Editor of Shelter. He and Buckminster Fuller took over the T.Square Club Journal of Philadelphia in 1932 and renamed it Shelter. In 1937, he asked Breuer to submit work to the revived publication, including material for an all-English issue and a foreword for an issue devoted to industrial design.
Photographer. Walter Gropius asked to send photographs for possible inclusion in the Deutsche Werkbund section of the 1930 Paris exhibition organized by the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs.
Architect based in New Orleans. Levy asked for information on the Ferry Cooperative Dormitory at Vassar College.
Client. In 1952, she and her husband, Marion, commissioned a house in Princeton, NJ. from Breuer. They were avid art collectors and this interest impacted the design of the house.
Client. In 1952, he and his wife, Joy, commissioned a house in Princeton, NJ. from Breuer. They were avid art collectors and this interest impacted the design of the house.
Professor and chief consultant to the Commission on Community Interrelations (CCI). In 1944, Lewin asked Breuer to undertake the interior decoration of their new offices.
Employee, Venesta, Ltd. His company manufactured some of the plywood furniture that Breuer designed for Isokon.
Employee, Venesta, Ltd. His company manufactured some of the plywood furniture that Breuer designed for Isokon.
Architect who worked in Breuer's Cambridge office on projects like Yankee Portables and the Witalis House. He had studied under Breuer at Harvard University's Graduate School of design, graduating in 1942. His father was Jay Roy Lewis of the Hampden-Ely Co., with whom Breuer hoped to fabricate the Yankee Portable demountable housing.
Lewis Equipment Co. Lewis offered to supply kitchen and food service equipment for the Ferry Cooperative Dormitory at Vassar College.
Treasurer, Hampden-Ely Co. and father of George Lewis, one of Breuer's employees. Breuer hoped to have Hampden-Ely fabricate his designs for Yankee Portable demountable housing.
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, including the Ferry Cooperative Dormitory at Vassar College.
Former student of Breuer's who worked in his office c. 1947. She left the office unexpectedly and with no explanation in the middle of work on the Scott house.
Director, Siemans and Halske, Werner-Werk. Walter Gropius that Siemans would contribute a clock for inclusion in the Deutsche Werkbund section of the 1930 Paris exhibition organized by the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs.
Employee, Freeport Iron Works. Freeport manufactured a steel staircase for the first Breuer House in New Canaan, CT. and supplied wrought iron parts for the Thompson House.
Director, Golden Gate International Exposition. She invited Breuer to submit furnishings for the exhibition, which was held in San Francisco in 1939.
Assistant to the Director of the International Competition for Low-Cost Furniture Design at the Museum of Modern Art.
Employee, The Crissey and Fowler Lumber Co. His company was the millwork subcontractor who produced the main entrance and sliding glass windows for the Smith House.
Lisker was involved in determining the Frankfurt contribution to the Deutsche Werkbund section of the 1930 Paris exhibition organized by the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs.
Executive at United States Plywood Corp. He advised Breuer on manufacturers interested in plywood furniture.
Family Home Editor, Parents' Magazine. She hoped to publish images of Breuer's school designs for an article on improving schools, but Breuer did not have any materials to send her.
Editor, Architectural Book Division, Reinhold Publishing Corp. His company published a book containing designs from the Pencil Points/Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company House Competition.
Lock purchased a Breuer-designed dining table when Jack Pritchard sold off the remaining Isokon stock in 1946.
Employee, Baitinger Electric Co. His firm supplied appliances for numerous projects, including the first Stillman House and the McComb House.
Author of a book on mass-produced furniture. He requested photographs of tubular steel, aluminum and plywood furniture from Breuer.
Author of a book on Modern Exhibition Architecture. He requested materials from Breuer's English work as Gropius had already supplied materials for the New York World Fair of 1939.
Employee, Art Metal Construction Co. His company supplied metal furnishings for projects like the Grosse Pointe Public Library.
Architectural Development, The Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co. His company supplied the glass for many of Breuer's residential projects, including the Smith House.
Vice-President, Frank and Du Bois, Inc. His firm provided fire insurance for the Ferry Cooperative Dormitory at Vassar College.
Employee of the Insituto Tecnico de la Construccion in Madrid. They published an article on Breuer's Robinson house in their magazine, Informes de la Construccion.
Hungarian designer and businessman who became involved with Standard-Möbel (the firm begun by Breuer and Kalman Lengyel ca. 1926 to produce Breuer’s furniture). In 1928, he reached an agreement with Standard-Möbel to manufacture chairs in his workshop. That same year, Lorenz persuaded Breuer to sign over to Standard-Möbel the rights to his designs already in production. In 1929, Lorenz sold Standard-Möbel to Thonet and founded his...
Alley Dwelling Authority. Breuer hoped Loshbough might help him obtain a commission for Yankee Portables in Washington, D.C.
Lotz was involved with the Deutsche Werkbund section of the 1930 Paris exhibition organized by the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs.
Design magazine. Lovell requested information on the radio-television-phonograph set that Breuer designed for the House in the Museum Garden.
Employee of Elmer T. Hebert, Inc., the hardware supplier for many of Breuer's projects.
Architects' Service Department, L. Sonneborn Sons, Inc., manufacturer of paints, varnishes and waterproofing materials.
Lowe requested information on the Plas-2-Point house, hoping to purchase one after the war.
Graduate student at the University of California. She was writing a thesis on the influence of painters on the decorative arts in the early 20th century and asked Breuer about the design of the first tubular steel furniture.
Luccarelli Construction Co. Luccarelli submitted an estimate for the Levy House, but the contract eventually went to the Bard Construction Co., Inc.
Architect who helped install the Deutsche Werkbund section of the 1930 Paris exhibition organized by the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs.
Cranbrook Academy of Art. He hoped to work on a housing project for Breuer in order to avoid the draft.
Subcontractor who sanded and finished floors in the guest cottage for the Fischer House.
Owner, Edward Luker Functional Furnishings. Luker inquired into the manufacture of Breuer's furniture designs.
Employee, Waldvogel Brothers, Inc. His company supplied acoustical ceiling tiles for projects like the Weintraub Agency offices and the Tompkins House.
Lundy studied architecture under Breuer at Harvard's Graduate School of Design. He also briefly worked in Breuer's office during the month of June in 1946. Four years later, Breuer wrote a recommendation for Lundy for the National Council of Architectural Registration Boards.
Managing Director, W. Lusty and Sons, Ltd. His company was interested in producing Breuer's furniture but negotiations ran aground.
Model maker for the House in the Museum Garden and the Abraham and Straus department store.
Landscape architect for projects like the Torrington High School, Bantam Elementary School and Litchfield High School.
Manager, Kohler Co. His company supplied an electric plant for the Breuer Cottage.
New England Manager, Eastern Air Lines, Inc. Breuer designed ticket offices for the airline located in the Boston Statler Hotel.