Vice-President, Union Building Co. In 1944, he approached Breuer about designing affordable standardized housing. It is unclear if this scheme ever moved beyond the preliminary stages.
Verein deutscher Seidenweberein. Walter Gropius approached Raemisch about contributing materials for display in the Deutsche Werkbund section of the 1930 Paris exhibition organized by the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs.
Employee, Atlas Tile and Marble Works, Inc. Atlas supplied marble and slate for various projects, including the Weintraub Agency offices and the first Stillman House.
Employee, Vulcan Rail and Construction Co. His company manufactured the sunshade for the Smith House.
Draftsman in Breuer's office c. 1945. He was educated at the Rhode Island School of Design and the Graduate School of Design at Harvard, where he was a student of Gropius and Breuer.
Ernst Rancke Metallwaren-Fabrik. Rancke constructed vitrines for the Deutsche Werkbund section of the 1930 Paris exhibition organized by the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs.
Client. In 1949, she and her husband, Paul, commissioned a house in Harrison, NY. from Breuer. Breuer eventually resigned as architect due to the fact that Mr. Rand was also an artist and Breuer wanted to avoid conflicts over control of the design.
Client. In 1949, he and his wife, Anne, commissioned a house in Harrison, NY. from Breuer. Rand was a graphic designer who created logos for many corporations including IBM, UPS and ABC. At the time, Paul was the art director at the advertising agency, William H. Weintraub and Company, which had hired Breuer to renovate their offices. Breuer eventually resigned as architect due to...
Black Mountain College. He hoped to publish a speech given by Walter Gropius at an event for the college at the Museum of Modern Art.
Employee, J. Geo. Fischer and Sons, Inc., wholesale distributors of refrigeration equipment, electrical supplies and home appliances.
Allen worked in the Sales Promotion Department of Architectural Record. He approached Breuer about using the Robinson House in an advertisement for the magazine.
Subcontractor for driveway and septic tank system for Breuer's first house in New Canaan, CT.
English art critic and historian. Read translated Wilhelm Worringer's Formprobleme der Gotik and met many of the Bauhaus instructors through Worringer and Max Sauerlandt, the director f the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe in Hamburg. Read served as the editor fo the Burlington Magazine from 1933 to 1939 and wrote books on topics such as "Art and Society" (1937) and "Eduation through Art" (1942). Read wrote...
City Engineer, New Kensington, PA. Recco provided a topographical survey for the site of the Aluminum City Terrace defense housing project and consulted on grading and the provision of utilities and roads.
Writer for Task Magazine. He was interested in writing a story on the problems of the New Kensington Defense Housing project, including the obstructionism of the mayor.
Furniture fabricator who worked with Breuer on auditorium chairs and the steel base for a stone table in his first house in New Canaan, CT.
Mayor, New Kensington, PA. Reeser wrote to B. J. Hovde, Director of the Pittsburgh Office of the Federal Works Agency, hoping to influence the look of the defense housing intended for his city.
Director, Venesta, Ltd. His company manufactured some of the plywood furniture that Breuer designed for Isokon.
Editor, Pencil Points. Pencil Points merged with Progressive Architecture in 1943. In 1944, he published an article on Breuer's designs for the Stuyvesant Six project.
Professor of Architecture, University of Liverpool. Reilly, along with John Gloag and Breuer, was a member of the committee responsible for the display content of a stand designed by Walter Gropius. Jack Pritchard hoped the stand would be displayed in stores like John Lewis and Co., Ltd. and Peter Jones.
Joseph Reinhart Sons. He offered his firms services regarding the decoration of the first Hooper House.
Superintendent, Long Beach Hospital, Inc. In 1945, the hospital asked Breuer to design a residence for nurses, interns and office staff. Breuer's design remained unbuilt due to an existing commitment to another architect.
Curator, Everyday Art Gallery, Walker Art Center. In 1945, she requested catalogues of modern furniture from the Isokon Furniture Co. for use in the Everyday Art Library.
Tribunal Clerk, American Arbitration Association. Repp organized the arbitration procedures for the dispute between Breuer and his client, Edmond Witalis. The conflict was eventually resolved outside of arbitration.
Treasurer, The A. T. Stearns Lumber Co. His company provided an estimate for cypress for the Aluminum City Terrace defense housing project.
Reynolds and Parnell, manufacturers' agents and importers of furnishing fabrics. Reynolds arranged for the upholstery of one of Isokon's chairs.
Employee, Paddock Swimming Pool Co. His company built the swimming pool for the first Gagarin House.
Jack Pritchard asked him for advice on possible lecture opportunities during Breuer's proposed visit to England in 1947.
Employee, The Hairlok Co., Ltd. His company manufactured rubberized hair pads used in the upholstery of the Isokon Long Chair.
General Manager and Consulting Engineer, Vassar College. He oversaw construction of the Ferry Cooperative Dormitory.
Employee, Gesellschaft für automatische Telefonie. His firm supplied a telephone for display in the Deutsche Werkbund section of the 1930 Paris exhibition organized by the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs.
Engineer and partner in Hubbard, Rickerd and Blakeley. His firm acted as consulting engineer for the Aluminum City Terrace defense housing project.
Engineer. Riordan testing the well water at Breuer's second house in New Canaan, CT.
Employee, The Charles Parker Co. His company supplied bathroom hardware and fixtures for projects like the Thompson and Englund houses.
Jens Risom Design, Inc. His firm supplied furniture for the Grosse Pointe Public Library.
James A. Mitchell and Dahlen K. Ritchey, Associated Architects. They served as associated architects for some of Gropius and Breuer's Pennsylvania projects, including the Frank House and the Fischer House and Studio.
Executive Director, National Council of Churches. He invited Breuer to attend the 1960 Join Conference on Church Architecture but Breuer was traveling and unable to attend.
President, Rivolta Construction Co., Inc. Rivolta submitted an estimate for the Clark House, but the contract was awarded to Emerson Daniels.
In 1951, she and her husband, Russell, purchased the first of Breuer's houses in New Canaan, CT.
In 1951, he and his wife, Romer, purchased the first of Breuer's houses in New Canaan, CT.
Employee of Elmer T. Hebert, Inc., a hardware supplier with whom Breuer frequently worked.
Employee, Lemac Aggregates Corp. Robinson suggested a rough concrete specification for the Grosse Pointe Public Library.
Client. In January of 1952, George Robinson asked Breuer to design a residence for his family in Redding Ridge, CT. Plans never proceeded beyond the preliminary stage as Robinson decided not to build just a few months after engaging Breuer's services.
Client. In 1946, she and her husband, Preston, commissioned a house from Breuer in Williamstown, MA. They conducted extensive research on contemporary architecture before settling on Breuer as the most appropriate architect and documented their reasoning in a long letter to Katherine Morrow Ford, editor at House and Garden.
Client. In 1946, he and his wife, Helen, commissioned a house from Breuer in Williamstown, MA. They conducted extensive research on contemporary architecture before settling on Breuer as the most appropriate architect and documented their reasoning in a long letter to Katherine Morrow Ford, editor at House and Garden.
Member of the Cambridge War Memorial Committee. The Committee launched a campaign to create a war monument on a 70-square-foot site at the southern end of the Cambridge Common. Breuer worked with Lawrence Anderson, a professor at MIT, on the design, which was never built.
Wife of John D. Rockefeller, III. She was a member of the Vassar College Committee that helped to select the architect for the Ferry Cooperative Dormitory.
Rockefeller was an influential figure in American politics, serving as both Governor of New York and Vice President of the United States under President Ford. He also served as President of the Museum of Modern Art.
He purchased the House in the Museum Garden and had it reassembled as a guest house on his family estate in Pocantico Hills, NY.
Director, Outlines Gallery. She staged an exhibition of the New Kensington Defense Housing and attempted to defend the project against negative reactions in the press.
Edward A. Roffman Associates. Roffman supplied lamps for projects like the Grosse Pointe Public Library and Breuer's first house in New Canaan, CT.
Property Inspector, Mortgage Loan Department, The Prudential Insurance Co. of America.
Italian architect, writer and teacher. In 1932, he graduated from the Polytechnic in Milan. He eventually became a professor at his alma mater and also served as editor of Domus from 1946-47 and of Casabella from 1953 to 1964. Rogers was a member of "The Five," the architectural advisors who exerted great control over the design of the UNESCO headquarters.
Rohde inquired into the construction of the cantilevered ends of the first Breuer house in New Canaan, CT.
Employee, The Holland Shade Co., supplier of bamboo shades for projects such as the House in the Museum Garden.
Employee, Suburban Air Conditioning Corp. Rose hoped to submit a bid for the heating system of the defense housing project in Wethersfield, CT., but the project was never built.
Employee of Gordon B. Roth, contractor for the Fischer House, Guest Cottage, the Geller House I and the Tompkins House. He also acted as a millwork subcontractor for Breuer's first house in New Canaan, CT.
Employee, Heifetz Manufacturing Co. Heifetz supplied lamps for the Pack House and the Ferry Cooperative Dormitory at Vassar College.
Employee, Lehigh Furniture Corp. Rosenthal hoped to supply furniture for the House in the Museum Garden, but all arrangements for furniture were already being handled by New Design, Inc.
Employee, Williams Glass Co. Rosenzweig hoped to bid on the glazing of the Lauck House.
Potential client. In 1944, Rossi spoke to Breuer about the possibility of building a house.
Swiss architect. He studied architecture at the Eidgenössiche Technische Hochschule (ETH) in Zurich, graduating in 1926. He then worked with Le Corbusier on the League of Nations project and the apartment buildings for the Weissenhof Siedlung in Stuttgart. In the early 1930s, he and his cousin, Emil, along with Breuer, designed the Doldertal Apartment buildings for Sigfried Giedion. A few years later he authored a...
Swiss architect. He studied at the Eidgenössiche Technische Hochschule (ETH) in Zurich from 1911 to 1914 but never graduated. Roth assisted Mart Stam and El Lissitzky on the unbuilt designs for a high-rise block in Moscow, the Wolkenbügel and edited avant-garde journal ABC: Beiträge zum Bauen. In the early 1930s, he and his cousin, Alfred, along with Breuer, designed the Doldertal Apartment buildings for Sigfried...
Contractor for the Fischer House, Guest Cottage, the Geller House I and the Tompkins House. He also acted as a millwork subcontractor for Breuer's first house in New Canaan, CT.
Director, L. and C. Arnold, G.m.b.H. In 1933, they signed a contract to produce Breuer's aluminum furniture.
Architect, Emery Roth and Sons. His firm was the architect of the building that housed the offices of the Weintraub Advertising Agency, later renovated by Breuer.
Employee, Jacobson and Co., Inc. His firm installed floor tiles and carpets for the Weintraub Agency offices.
President, Abraham and Straus. In the early 1950s, Breuer served as consulting architect for exterior design for a new branch of the department store in Hempstead, Long Island.
Employee, Griffith-Custer Steel Co. His company fabricated roof beams for the Thompson House.
Employee, Thomas B. Bourne Associates, Inc., engineers and architects. His firm hired Breuer as a consultant for the design of the interior public spaces of Airport Terminal Buildings in Alaska.
Director of Buildings and Grounds, Sarah Lawrence College. The college commissioned a new art center from Breuer in 1951.
In 1938, Rozsaffy approached Breuer about manufacturing Breuer's metal chairs. The two men never reached an agreement.
Employee, Knoll Associates, Inc. Knoll was one of the few suppliers of modern furniture in the United States and supplied furniture for many of Breuer's projects.
Rucker helped oversee the installation of the Deutsche Werkbund section of the 1930 Paris exhibition organized by the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs.
Architect, curator, and writer. In 1931, he received a doctorate from the school of architecture in Vienna. He emigrated to the United States a decade later, where he taught at Black Mountain College and curated numerous exhibition for the Museum of Modern Art, including “Architecture without Architects” (1964). He also served as associate editor of New Pencil Points and editor and art director of Interiors magazine....
Employee, Columbus Railing Co. His company fabricated a steel staircase railing for the Foote House.
Treasurer, Perma Board Corp. They provided doors for the first Breuer House in New Canaan, CT. The doors warped causing Breuer much aggravation.
Regional Accounting Supervisor, National Housing Agency, Federal Public Housing Authority.
Managing Director, Gordon Russell Ltd. After making partner in his family firm, Russell and Sons, he introduced machinery into the workshop. In 1926, he founded his own furniture firm, Gordon Russell Ltd., which sold Breuer's Isokon Long Chair in their London fabric showroom. Russell was also a leading member of the Design and Industries Association and the Royal Society of Arts. Jack Pritchard asked him...
English architect and furniture designer. Brother of Gordon Russell.
Ryan Manufacturing Co. His company manufactured a linoleum sink top for Breuer's own house in Lincoln, MA.
Supervisor, Credits and Collections, General Electric Appliances, Inc. His company supplied appliances for projects like the Englund House.
Cashier, The First National Bank of Yarmouth. His bank provided Stuart Scott, one of Breuer's clients, with a construction loan and mortgage.
Employee, Troughton and Young Ltd. Ryder suggested a firm to sell Isokon chairs in Sweden.