For decades, the Wellfleet home of Hungarian-born modernist architect and furniture designer Marcel Breuer (1901-1981) sat empty, its contents and structure falling into disrepair. Peter McMahon, an ...

There are landmarks the public instantly adores and others to which their eyes and hearts must adjust. Take Marcel Breuer’s design for the Whitney Museum of American Art. When it first opened in 1966, ...

In March, a 7-acre estate at 372 and 370 Further Lane in East Hampton kicked off the season with a $70 million sale. It was the kind of deal you’ve come to expect from the massive estates that line ...

The trope of the embattled auteur exerting their will is too tempting for filmmakers to ignore. By Walker Mimms Call them monuments, foreign elements, eyesores — Brutalist buildings have become ...

Sally Hershberger, a hairdresser to the stars, has put her Hamptons home on the market for $2.75 million. Known as the Butterfly House, the charming mid-century modernist residence was built in 1976.

Peter McMahon found blue paint when he peeled back a piece of Homasote inside the rustic summer home built in 1948 by legendary architect Marcel Breuer. Homasote − or pressed cardboard paper − was a ...

This July the Cape Cod Modern House Trust (CCMHT) announced the successful acquisition of Marcel Breuer’s Long House in Wellfleet, Massachusetts. The early prototype that would go on to become a ...

The work of famed modernist architect Marcel Breuer is not immediately identifiable with the pastoral. His projects, ranging from New York City’s former Whitney Museum of American Art to the UNESCO ...

Jacob Anbinder is a Ph.D. candidate in history at Harvard University, where he is writing a dissertation on urban growth and its role in making the modern Democratic Party. When news broke earlier ...