Date
1936
Project Type
Exhibition
Location
Bristol England
Languages
Dutch
English
French
German
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Portuguese
Spanish
People/Firms
A. N. Marquis Co.
Abraham and Straus, Inc.
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.
Aoyagi, Tetsu
Arango, Elizabeth
Crofton Gane, Chairman of the P. E. Gane Furniture Co., asked Breuer and Yorke to design his company's pavilion for the 1936 Royal Agricultural Show in Bristol. The four room pavilion was meant to showcase Gane's furniture. It consisted of a number of sliding planes constructed of local fieldstone. The form, if not the material, was likely influenced by Mies van der Rohe's Barcelona Pavilion of 1929. The only curved element of the composition was the outside wall of the living room. One corner of the design featured an open-air terrace roofed with a pergola, which rested on part of the supporting pier. The floors and some of the interior walls were faced with birch plywood. Full-length sliding glass panels opened to the terrace and garden and created a pleasing contrast of texture and transparency with the stone and plywood walls.
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