Phaidon Breuer

• Hardcover
• 305 × 238 mm
• 500 illustrations
• 456 pages

This highly acclaimed book is the most comprehensive publication on the architect and designer Marcel Breuer (1902-1981). It covers in detail all the houses, furniture and public buildings he designed in Europe and the United States - from his beginnings at the Bauhaus to his collaboration with Walter Gropius and the establishment of his own practice in the USA. Renowned architect and writer Robert McCarter called the first edition of this book a “serious study” (Financial Times) that would help “redefine Breuer's position in the canon of modern masters” (TLS).

A comprehensive monograph on the last architect of the first generation of modernists, Breuer is the only book to address both his design and architecture, with detailed descriptions of his work - including his commercial, residential and furniture projects, as well as his unrealized projects, including all of his iconic furniture (such as the Wassily and Cesca chairs) and buildings (including the UNESCO headquarters in Paris and the Whitney Museum in New York). Due to popular demand, this edition has been reissued and has a beautiful new cover featuring Sotheby's global headquarters in New York.