IHBC’s heritage business register HESPR – our Historic Environment Service Providers Recognition quality assurance scheme for heritage services – emails members weekly ‘News and Tender Alerts’, and this week features Dezeen on the campaign to save Marcel Breuer’s Cape Cod holiday home from demolition.
Tom Ravenscroft writes in Dezeen:
The Cape Cod Modern House Trust has launched a campaign to raise $1.2 million to purchase modernist architect Marcel Breuer’s holiday home in Cape Cod, USA, to save it from likely demolition…..
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….
The original house is an early example of the Long House typology developed by Marcel Breuer…
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 numerous artworks designed by Bauhaus alumni Paul Klee, Josef Albers and Herbert Bayer.
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