Date
1936
Project Types
Furniture
Interior Design
Residential
Location
London 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
In 1936, Breuer received the commission to design the interiors for an apartment in a new modern building called Highpoint, designed by Berthold Lubektin's Tecton group. Dorthea Ventris and her son, Michael, lived in a seven room apartment. Breuer used a screen of grass matting to divide the public and private spaces of the apartment. The dining room resembled many earlier Breuer interiors, with hanging wall cabinets and tubular steel chairs, but the dining table was an Isokon table of black laminated plywood with a blue Bakelite top. For the living room, Breuer designed a cabinet to house a gramophone, cupboards with polished blue interiors and a chair and sofa with freeform plywood cutout sides. The plywood furniture prefigured later designs such as those for the Frank house. The heater in the center of the room was intended to be a "social focus." Breuer also designed built-in furniture for the bedrooms included an ingenious dressing table in which the drawers pivoted on hinges.
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