Word: breuers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...access of idiosyncratic inspiration, Director Lee Breuer provides the play not with one Ariel but eleven, ranging in age and sex from adults to tiny tots barely out of diapers. It is eerily disconcerting that the chief aery sprite (Iwatora) is garbed as a sumo wrestler with matching gestures and grunts. The enamored young couple, Ferdinand (David Marshall Grant) and Miranda (Jessica Nelson), who should breathe the spirit of nascent romance into the play, are equally dismaying. He seems like a rough and randy high school jock and she like a simp of a gum-chewing prom queen...
DIED. Marcel Breuer, 79, Hungarian-born designer and architect whose sculptural use of steel and concrete helped shape the furniture and buildings of the 20th century; of heart disease; in New York City. Working with Walter Gropius at Germany's famous Bauhaus during the 1920s, Breuer was inspired by the curve of bicycle handles to design his celebrated tubular steel and leather Wassily chair (named for Painter Wassily Kandinsky, one of its first purchasers). After leaving the Bauhaus in 1928, he created the simple steel and cane Cesca chair, which, like the Wassily, remains a ubiquitous furnishing today. Breuer...
...Breuer's own home in Lincoln, Mass., which he designed soon after his arrival in America, was particularly influential, McCue said...
...Among Breuer's many works in the Boston area were Roxbury High School, the University of Massachusetts Boston campus, and the headquarters of the New England Merchants Bank...
...When Breuer left Harvard in 1946, he established his practice in New York City, where he made important innovations in the design of contemporary furniture as well as buildings. The Breuer chair, made of tubular steel, is now a widely imitated piece of furniture and his designs of kitches--with built-in fixtures and suspended fixtures--have been widely adopted...