MARCEL BREUER: SUN AND SHADOW
The Philosophy of an Architect
Peter Blake and Alexey Brodovitch

Peter Blake: MARCEL BREUER: SUN AND SHADOW (The Philosophy of an Architect). NYC: Dodd and Meade, 1956. First Edition. A very good to near-fine hardcover book bound in full, decorated cloth without the dust jacket: cloth lightly sunned. Interior unmarked and very clean. Out-of-print. Stunningly original book design by Alexey Brodovitch.

8 x 10.75 hardcover book with 206 pages and 314 b/w photographs and plans and 8 pages of color images. Incredible book choked full of Breuer's designs and philosophies, all joined together by a wonderfully original book design by legendary art director Alexey Brodovitch.

This book offers a comprehensive study of Marcel Breuer's enormously influential designs for furniture, interiors and architecture: Wooden Furniture; Tubular-Steel Furniture; Aluminum Furniture; Interiors; Architecture in Germany, Switzerland, England and the United States; Isokon Furniture; the Museum of Modern Art Competition, and much, much more! An extraordinarily comprehensive volume. Contents:

• Preface
• Introduction by Marcel Breuer
• Part One: Work and Projects 1920-1937: A pictorial record of work done in furniture and architecture between 1920 and 1937.
• Part Two: Principles.
• Sun and Shadow by Marcel Breuer
• Architecture in the Landscape by Marcel Breuer
• Thoughts on the City by Marcel Breuer.
• Part Three: The Art of Space.
• The Art of Space by Marcel Breuer
• Structures in Space by Marcel Breuer
• Colors Textures Materials by Marcel Breuer
• Structures in Space
• Colors, Textures, Materials
• Forms in Space: Stairs, Fireplaces, Sunshades, Furniture
• Art in Space
• Work and Projects 1937-1955 By Peter Blake
• Work in the United Sates and UNESCO in Paris
• The House
• One Clients Point of View by Rufus Stillman
• The Multiple House
• Educational Buildings
• Commercial and Industrial Buildings
• Cultural Centers
• Photographers Credits

This volume includes Photographs, Illustrations, and/or Floor Plans for the following projects: Alworth House, Duluth, Minn.; Bauhaus Masters, Bambos Row Houses; Bauhaus, Dessau; Beach Restaurants, Mar del Plata, Argentina; Berlin Building Exhibition; Binuclear House, Floor Plans; Black Mountain College, North Carolina, 1939; Boroschek Apartment, Berlin; Breuer House, Calder Mobile, Lincoln, Mass.; Breuer House, Floor Plan, New Canaan, Conn.; Breuer House, Lincoln, Mass 1939; Breuer House, Living Room, Lincoln Mass.; Breuer House, New Canaan, Conn.; Budapest Spring Fair Buildings; Caesar Cottage, Lakeville, Conn.; Cantilevered House, New Canaan, Conn.; Chamberlain Cottage, Wayland, Mass.; Civic Center of the Future, 1969; Clark House, Orange, Connecticut; de Bijenkorf Store, Rotterdam; De Francesco Apartment, Berlin; Diagrams 3 Basic Tubular Steel Chairs, 1928; Dolderthal Apartments, Zurich; East River Apartments, New York; Elberfeld Hospital; Elementary and High Schools, Litchfield, Conn; Exhibition House Museum of Modern Art, 1949; Gane's Exhibition Pavilion, Bristol; Geller House, Lawrence, New York; Grieco House, Andover, Mass; Haggerty House, Cohasset, Mass.; Harnischmacher House, Wiesbaden; Haselhorts Housing, Apartments; Hillside House, Floor Pan; House at Angmering-on-Sea, Sussex, England; Isokon Chair, 1935; Kharkov Theatre Project; Kniffin House, New Canaan, Conn.; L. Moholy-Nagy House; Low Cost Housing, New Kensington, Pa.; Maerisch-Ostrau House; McIntyre Plant, Westbury, New York; Member Housing, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, New Jersey; Monastery of St John's Abbey, Collegeville, Minn; Multi-lens Window, Berlin; Neumann House, Croton on Hudson, New York; Pack House, Scarsdale, New York ; Piscator Apartment; Plas-2-Point Prefabricated House, 1942; Plywood Nesting Chair, 1945; Potsdamer Platz, Berlin; Robinson House, Williamstown, Mass; Sarah Lawrence Art Center, Bronxville, New York; Serviceman's Memorial, Cambridge, Mass.; Showroom, "Scarves by Vera", New York; Ski Hotel Obergurgl, Tyrol; Smith College Dormitories, Northampton, Mass.; Stacking Isokon Chairs, 1935; Stillman House, Litchfield, Conn; Stone Table, Breuer House, New Canaan, Conn.; Stuyvesant Town, New York; Summer House, Wellfleet, Mass.; Thompson House, Ligonier, PA.; Thost House, Hamburg; Tompkins House, Hewlett Harbor, NY.; Torrington Manufacturing, Oakville, Canada; UNESCO, Paris; Vassar Cooperative House, Poughkeepsie, New York; Ventris Apartment, London; Weizenblatt House, Ashville, NC.; Werkbund Exhibition, Paris; Wheaton College Art Center, 1938; Wohnbedarf Furniture Store, Zurich; Wolfson House, Millbrook, New York aand the Yankee Portable Prefabricated House, 1942.

Alexey Brodovitch (1898-1971), legendary art director for Harper's Bazaar and his own landmark magazine Portfolio, passionate teacher of graphic design, advocate of photography and collaborator with many prominent photographers, is often credited with having a major influence on the acceptance of European modernism in America.

"Astonish me!" was Brodovitch's often quoted exhortation to students attending his "Design Laboratory" classes over the years. Though borrowing "etonnez-moi!" from the Russian ballet master Sergei Diaghilev, with this charge, Brodovitch indeed set in motion the application of the modernist ethos to American graphic design and photography.

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