Date
1951
Project Types
Interior Design
Residential
Location
New Canaan, CT USA
Languages
Dutch
English
French
German
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Spanish
People/Firms
A. N. Marquis Co.
Abraham and Straus, Inc.
Adams, Esther
Agostini, Alfredo
Albers, Josef
Albert, Edouard
Aldrich, Nelson
Allen, Deborah
American Architect and Architecture
American Designers Committee for French Civilian Relief
American Embassy (Bogotá, Colombia)
Amsterdamsche Bank
Andrews, Wayne
Andruss, D.
Antonette, William
In 1951, Breuer sold his first house in New Canaan, CT. and designed a new home for his family. He created a U-shaped, single-story, flat-roofed building in which planar, fieldstone walls alternated with floor-to-ceiling glass. The house surrounded an entrance terrace paved in flagstone. The entrance opened to the master bedroom suite and a free-plan living-dining room in which the spaces were separated by a translucent screen. The living room featured one of Breuer's sculptural fireplaces composed of a rectangular, white-painted brick element topped by a cylindrical flue. The living-dining room opened onto another paved terrace, bounded by a low-stone wall. The children's and guest bedrooms were at the opposite end of the house from the master bedroom. Breuer specified flagstone floors and cypress ceilings for most of the interior spaces, which were furnished with numerous pieces of his own design. He sold the house in 1976. One of his partners, Herbert Beckhard, designed later additions.
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