Architect and furniture designer. He studied at Bauhaus, and was initially recognised for his so-called 'bicycle-handlebar' inspired tubular steel furniture. He moved to London to escape from Nazi Germany and was employed by the Isokon Company. Died in Manhattan.
Credit for this entry to: Alan Patient of www.plaquesoflondon.co.uk
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Marcel Breuer
Walter Gropius 1883 - 1969 Marcel Breuer 1902 - 1981 László Moholy-Nagy 1895 ...
Architect. He designed high quality houses in London and south-east England, as well as housing developments for working men in London and Birmingham. A large proportion of his work comprised thirt...
Architect of the 1901 Shoreditch Town Hall Extension and of Campden Hill Mansions. Architect and surveyor of Bedford Gardens, Kensington in 1900 when he was working on houses in Addison Road. Will...
Believed to have assisted Fowler in his work on the Concise Oxford Dictionary. The Latin on the memorial, 'castigavit et emendavit', translates as “he corrected and improved“, which is quite an ac...
Architect and antiquary, Born London. Educated at Westminster. Harrow Old Schools was his first building.
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