Publisher/東京国立近代美術館

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This book is a collection of works by Marcel Breuer (1902-1981), a Hungarian-born architect and renowned furniture designer, titled "Marcel Breuer's Furniture: Improvement for Good." A master who was active from before the war, known for his modernist architecture and Bauhaus furniture design. He studied under Walter Gropius at the Bauhaus and later became a professor there. Faithful to the Bauhaus ideal of "functional and simply beautiful," he created his early masterpiece, the "Wassily Chair," in 1925 (designed for his Bauhaus colleague, Wassily Kandinsky). Furthermore, he had a great influence on mid-century modern design, skillfully using steel, plywood, and wood. After 1940, he moved to the United States and worked as an architect. His most famous work is undoubtedly the Whitney Museum of American Art, one of the representative works of Brutalist architecture. This book is a catalog published for an exhibition held at the National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo in 2017, and focuses primarily on furniture, offering an in-depth look at Breuer's designs.