{"id":748,"date":"2023-08-17T10:15:09","date_gmt":"2023-08-17T10:15:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vibergirls.com\/?p=748"},"modified":"2023-08-18T14:58:04","modified_gmt":"2023-08-18T14:58:04","slug":"campaign-launched-to-save-marcel-breuers-cape-cod-holiday-home-from-demolition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vibergirls.com\/index.php\/2023\/08\/17\/campaign-launched-to-save-marcel-breuers-cape-cod-holiday-home-from-demolition\/","title":{"rendered":"Campaign launched to save Marcel Breuer's Cape Cod holiday home from demolition"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Cape Cod Modern House Trust has launched a campaign to raise $1.2 million to purchase modernist architect\u00a0Marcel Breuer<\/a>‘s holiday home in Cape Cod<\/a>, USA, to save it from likely demolition<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

Non-profit Cape Cod Modern House Trust is aiming to raise the money<\/a> to purchase the house, which was designed by the Hungarian-American architect as his own summer house in the 1940s, from his son Tomas Breuer.<\/p>\n

“Most significant of the Cape’s many modernist buildings”<\/strong><\/p>\n

The group describes the building near the town of Wellfleet as the “most significant of the Cape’s many modernist buildings” and believes that if it is purchased by a private buyer it will likely be demolished.<\/p>\n

Tomas Breuer has set a purchase price of $2 million, of which $1.2 million will need to be raised from donations.<\/p>\n

“We need to raise \u00a31.2 million and are approved for a mortgage for the balance,” explained Cape Cod Modern House Trust founding director Peter McMahon.<\/p>\n

“The house is 1,700 square foot and a house twice the size can be built on the lot with no need of a variance,” he told Dezeen. “It’s un-heated and in disrepair so most buyers would be only interested in the land.”<\/p>\n

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Top: Marcel Breuer designed the building as his own holiday home in the 1940s. Photo by Raimund Koch. Much of the original furniture and fittings remain. Photo by Tomas Breuer<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The original house is an early example of the Long House typology developed by Marcel Breuer, who was a master at the influential Bauhaus<\/a> school in Germany. It was then expanded in 1961 by adding an art studio and again in\u00a01968 with the addition of a small apartment and darkroom for his son Tomas.<\/p>\n

Although it is in a state of disrepair, the home contains almost all its original furniture including one-of-a-kind tables, couches and hand-woven rugs designed for the house. It also contains artworks\u00a0numerous artworks designed by Bauhaus alumni Paul Klee, Josef Albers and Herbert Bayer.<\/p>\n