Marcel Breuer, Toilette, Haus am Horn, Weimar, Germany, 1923
Marcel Breuer, Toilette, Haus am Horn, Weimar, Germany, 1923
“Marcel Lajos Breuer (22 May 1902 – 1 July 1981), was a Hungarian-born modernist, architect and furniture designer of Jewish descent. One of the masters of Modernism, Breuer extended the sculptural vocabulary he had developed in the carpentry shop at the Bauhaus into a personal architecture that made him one of the world’s most popular architects at the peak of 20th-Century design.”
In 1922 Breuer start working on the project for a single family home in the first exhibition of the Bauhaus was to summarize the initial four years of school work. Exposure involving all laboratories, in particular that of carpentry that supplies furniture to the Haus am Horn. Breuer design the interiors of the room and the lady in the living room. In the toilet, designed for the bedroom, every item was spresso in a distinct geometric shape (circle, ellipse, cube).
The mirror round was adjustable while the oval., Of larger size, was bound to a vertical support in wood. Another item of furniture was on the shelf of cosmetics box to the left, could slide to allow the opening of the integral box until you reach the other shelf on the right, maintain the drawers, mirror and metal, which ran around and prevented any movement. Iĺegni used were walnut, lemon and small inserts ebanoche, alternating, created sharp contrasts of color.
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