Chamberlain Cottage Location: Wayland, Massachusetts Year: 1940 Designer: Marcel Breuer
“The Prouns. Proun 99” Breuer received his education at the Bauhaus in Weimar and graduated 1924. Breuer than taught at the Bauhaus in Dessau untill 1928.
Facts About The “Chamberlain Cottage” The cabin, commisioned to be built by Harvard Professor Chamberlain and his wife, sits on a nine heacter plot of land outside Wayland, MA.
Facts About Marcel Breuer Marcel Lajos Breuer was born on May 21, 1902 in Pecs, Hungary. Breuer is the designer of many famously modern buildings, many of which are in NYC. The list includes: • The Museum of Modern Art (1938) • Sarah Lawerence College Arts Center (1951) • Hunter College Library and Adminstration buildings (1960) • NYU Dormitory, Student Center and Technology buildings (1961 & 1970) Breuer also partnered with designer Hamilton P. Smith in the design of the Whitney Museum of American Art (1966)
The “shoe house” had a small program consisting of a livingroom, library that could hold 500 to 1000 books, a room and storage for a canoe. In his sketches, Breuer designed the porch to face the direction of the “best views” and took inspiration from the porch in his own house in Lincoln, MA. In Breuer’s laid out the main floor is designed around the freestanding fireplace. The Chamberlain Cottage was remodeled by architects Sidney R. Bowen and Angela E. Watson in 1995, who took inspiration from Breuer’s original design in there expansion.
Breuer was one of the last “true” fuctionalist architects and helped shift the Bauhaus from “Arts & Crafts” to “Arts & Technology”.