Completed in 1954 for Robert and Marianne Snower, Marcel Breuer designed the house site unseen. The Snowers had reached out to Breuer after seeing his work in a magazine, and lived there until it was bought in 2014.
The current owners, Rob Barnes and Karen Bisset, then renovated some key aspects of the home, although not much was needed. The home still contains many of Breuer's original custom furniture. The below video by Hufft Projects, "A Letter to Marcel", reimagines the initial contact made between the Snowers and Breuer, and takes a tour through the home.
A Letter To Marcel from Hufft Projects on Vimeo.
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This video is quite touching and very well done.
Yes, indeed. A discussion of the house, and of Breuer, has taken place at Wright Chat. The video is a pleasant addition. I do wish that the entry-sequence shot had been prolonged. There is a tendency for rapid cuts in architectural videos that seems unfortunate; I first noticed it in presentations of digital model work. The eye barely has time to take in the scene, much less begin to register detail, before we're off to another view.
Lovely house, isn't it. I've snapped a frame containing the plan, for further study. Klaus Herdeg's 1983 screed against the Harvard GSD product, "The Decorated Diagram," includes Breuer of course; the author seems color-blind to the joy found in Breuer's residences. He finds the Errazuris house of Corbu (Chile, 1930) to compare to the 1945 MoMA exhibition house -- admittedly a weak example of Breuer's work. Too bad the contemporaneous Geller I house wasn't on his radar, or wasn't of a comparable footage ?
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