Date
1938
Project Type
Residential
Location
Buckinghamshire, England
Languages
Dutch
English
French
German
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
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
F. R. S. Yorke received the commission to design two houses for Masters at Eton College before he entered into partnership with Breuer, and the buildings were completed after Breuer immigrated to the United States. Nonetheless, drawings are signed by both architects indicating a degree of collaboration on the final design. The identical flat-roofed, brick buildings on adjoining lots were designed for a modest cost of £2,5000 but still included seven bedrooms on the second floor. Like many of Breuer's other houses, a large sliding window providing access from the living room to a paved terrace shaded by a wooden pergola. The closets normally found in the bedrooms lined the upstairs hallway freeing up space in the small rooms. Breuer would later use this device in his competition entry for a small, post-war house sponsored by the "Ladies' Home Journal" and the "Chicago Tribune."
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