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Marcel Breuer's House in a Garden - 1948
Marcel Breuer, one of the giants of Modern architecture designed this house as a model home for post-war American living. It was commissioned by the Museum of Modern Art and was built in the garden of the Museum, as a temporary installation. Later it was purchased by the Rockefeller family, who moved it to one of their estates to serve as a guest house.
The design is simple and elegant, combining natural materials with a modern handling of form and space. Within its efficient framework it achieves a variety of heights, volumes and moods. The plan includes 3 bedrooms, 2 baths, and generously sized social spaces including an ideal play space for children. The plans also include the "Annex" that was built next to it a few years later, an ideal guest cottage or home office, near but not attached to the house.
As a work of art these prints are worth purchasing in their own right. For those of you interested in building a historically inspired house, these plans offer an excellent starting point. The plan is ideally suited for a flat site. This house would be comfortable in a suburban or country setting. This spacious home has outside dimensions of approximately 24' x 78', not including the separate annex, which measures approximately 20'x26'.
Building name: House in the Museum Garden
Designer/Architect: Marcel Breuer
Date of construction: 1948
Location: Pocantico Hills, NY (current location)
Style: Mid-Century Modern
Number of sheets: 5 sheets measuring 24" x 36"
Sheet List
Cover Sheet, Vicinity Map, Notes, Site Plan
Floor Plans, 1/4" = 1'-0"
Elevations, 1/4"=1'-0"
Sections, Interior Elevation, 1/4"=1'-0" & 3/4"=1'-0"
Interior Elevations, 1/2"=1'-0"
The prints you are purchasing are crisp, high resolution black line copies on white bond paper. The original drawings were beautifully delineated in 2010, by the Historic American Building Survey. Photos shown in the description are NOT included in your purchase. This listing is for architectural drawings only.
If you enjoy these plans you may also be interested to see
Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House.
SHIPPING: Your drawings are shipped to you, by US Postal Service, rolled, not folded, in a Priority Mail tube.
IF YOU ARE PLANNING TO BUILD: These plans are NOT complete architectural drawings as might be required by your local permitting agency and do not contain all the structural, waterproofing and other details and information necessary for construction. But your local builder or architect should be able to adapt these drawings and add to them as necessary. What they do provide is accurate design information about a REAL Mid-century Modern Style home, not a pseudo-Modern tract house as you will find in the house plan magazines on your supermarket shelf.
INTERNATIONAL BUYERS PLEASE NOTE: Orders shipped to addresses outside the USA may be subject to customs duties at their destination. The buyer is responsible for any such duties.
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