1947
"This single-level, expansive house rests serenely on a broad site and commands a sweeping view of the Berkshire Mountains. The plan is binuclear, with a clear division between living and sleeping areasÑall set beneath a butterfly roof which terminates in cantilevered trusses at one end. Nature penetrates the structure with interior plantings and courts, while the fieldstone walls extend out to embrace the landscape. The exterior boarding is either painted or natural cypress, allowed to weather a silver-gray. The extensive use of glass in the living-dining area makes the distant hills the outer boundary of the interior spaceÑever changing with the seasons and the shifting light."
— Cranston Jones and Marcel Breuer. Marcel Breuer: Buildings and Projects 1921-1961. p218.
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field stone masonry, weathered cypress
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Breur, Marcel and Constance Cottage (1948)
on Williams Pond in Wellfleet (Newcomb Hollow), MA
Designed by Marcel Breuer
Marcel Breur came to Cape Cod in 1948, built his house next to Chermayeff Residence. Breuer also designed an unrealized settlement of 5 to 7 homes based on this cottage design nearby.
In 1961 Breuer expanded his own house into an L shaped plan with a studio / bedroom wing for his son Tomas. When Harold and Barbara Wise approached him in 1963 to design a house for them he suggested building a mirror image of his own expanded house, which suited their site and budget and his schedule. He was by then very busy with international projects. The house seems to hover above the rolling terrain with minimal impact on the landscape.
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In 1945 Breuer conceived a small community of cottages between Higgins, Herring and Slough Ponds in Wellfleet based on a house prototype he had developed a couple of years earlier. This prototype was a simple, shed roofed volume that he was to re-work in many later projects. In this version it is sided with plywood and has a porch and sun shade suspended from cables. Although the cottage community was not built, Breuer executed four versions of this prototype in Wellfleet, including one for his own family in 1948-49, and one not far away for his friend Gyorgy Kepes. The Cape's climate and insect life necessitated a roofed, screened porch and tongue and groove cedar siding over the plywood in the built versions. Breuer's and Kepes’ cottages were built simultaneously, and the builder, Ernie Rose, said that because they were identical, he could build both for $5,000 dollars.
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