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Our New Breuer Listing Featured at Boston.Com/Globe.Com

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Boston Globe, Marcel Breuer, press On Jun 17, 2022

Thanks to Boston.com for featuring our fab listing!

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Dwell Features Our Breuer Listing!

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Dwell, Marcel Breuer, press On Jun 16, 2022

  We are thrilled to have our new listing covered over at Dwell.  

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Marcel Breuer-designed Geller I and Preservation

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Bauhaus, DOCOMOMO, Marcel Breuer, New York Times, Preservation On Feb 08, 2022

The New York Times has had a couple of articles in the past weeks about the demolition of the Geller I House in Lawrence, Long Island, New York, designed by Marcel Breuer. The first piece was the sad news itself. The second came today, an explanation called Why Does the Demolition of a Marcel Breuer…

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Video Tour of a 1948 Marcel Breuer-Designed Home on 42 Acres

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Bauhaus, Dwell, Edwin Goodell, Eleanor Raymond, Henry Hoover, Marcel Breuer, Sales, Video On May 21, 2019

We are very proud to represent the buyer of this magnificent property in Williamstown. Located just a half mile from William College, the Robinson House was built in 1948 and is sited on a private 42 acres with river frontage and mountain vistas. The 5,000 s.f. butterfly roof home was designed by Bauhaus-identified architect, Marcel…

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Heroic Brutalism and the Lincoln House and Studio

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Ben Thompson, brutalist, Cambridge Seven Associates, Carl Koch, Design Research, Earl Flansburgh, Ezra Stoller, Five Fields, Hugh Stubbins, Jane Thompson, Josep Lluís Sert, Josep Lluis Sert, Kallman and McKinnell, Le Corbusier, Lexington, lincoln, Marcel Breuer, Paul Rudolph, Roche-Dinkeloo, Saarinen, Six Moon Hill, Snake Hill, TAC, Techbuilt, Walter Gropius On Dec 27, 2018

In 2015 I attended a talk given by a couple of the authors of Heroic: Concrete Architecture and the New Boston, which had just been published. The insight of the authors was so keen and their presentation so impressive that I naturally purchased a copy at the event. It is truly a hefty tome, more…

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Marcel Breuer’s Famous Chamberlain Cottage For Sale

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Chamberlain Cottage, homes for sale, Marcel Breuer, Wayland On May 12, 2015

This is not our listing. We would act as buyer agents for clients. Contact us for details. Offered at $2 million. Located in Wayland, a pond-front 7+ acre setting for this 1940 house with three bedrooms and two full baths. 3,742 s.f. of living area. The Chamberlain Cottage. Click to enlarge:

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Cape Cod Modern and Tomorrow’s Houses: New England Modernism

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Alexander Gorlin, Books, Cape Cod Modern House Trust, Cape Cod Modern: Midcentury Architecture and Community on the Outer Cape, Chermayeff, Christine Cipriani, Geoffrey Gross, Marcel Breuer, Mid-Century Modern, Nathaniel Saltonstall, Peter McMahon, Raimund Koch, Saarinen, Tomorrow's Houses: New England Modernism, Walter Gropius, Weidlinger On Aug 28, 2014

  I hate the to be the bearer of bad news, but with the kids heading back to school and Labor Day weekend upon us, the unofficial end of summer is here for those of us in the northern hemisphere. But we each have our ways of savoring those precious remaining days. Mine has been…

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Boston Sunday Globe on Walter Pierce and Architecture at UMass

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Bauhaus, Boston Globe, Edward Durell Stone, Five Fields, Hugh Stubbins, Kevin Roche, Lexington, lincoln, Marcel Breuer, modernism, University of Massachusetts On Mar 24, 2013

  The Globe today covers two subjects near and dear to my heart. Bryan Marquard has written a nice tribute to Walter Pierce, including links to our 2011 interview with him for this site. In the Ideas section of same edition is a very interesting article by Max Page about the architecture of the University…

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Breuer in Wellfleet

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Cape Cod Modern House Trust, Marcel Breuer, Preservation On Apr 04, 2012

From our friends at the Cape Cod Modern House Trust, comes this call for action supporting the Wellfleet Historic Review Board’s effort to maintain a demolition delay list. Preservation can be a tricky cause in some instances, and as a real estate broker, I have been embroiled in one or two. But in the case…

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Sold: Lexington Listing, “the Dunn House” Designed by Ira Rakatansky

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Apartment Therapy, Bauhaus, Ira Rakatansky, Lexington, Listings, Marcel Breuer, Mid-Century Modern, SOLD, Walter Gropius On Mar 30, 2012

  See post below for more photos [slideshow exclude=”1776,1779,1780,1781,1782,1783,1784,1785″] The Dunn House, 58 Hill Street, Lexington (Under Agreement; Showing for Back-Up Offers) One of an enclave of two homes designed by noted master Modernist architect, Ira Rakatansky,  this 3052 square-foot house, built in 1955, has six bedrooms; three full baths, including an en suite master…

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New Lexington Listing, “the Dunn House” Designed by Ira Rakatansky

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Apartment Therapy, Bauhaus, Ira Rakatansky, Lexington, Listings, Marcel Breuer, Mid-Century Modern, Walter Gropius On Mar 30, 2012

Click any photo to enlarge: [slideshow exclude=”1776,1779,1780,1781,1782,1783,1784,1785″] The Dunn House, 58 Hill Street, Lexington (Under Agreement; Showing for Back-Up Offers) One of an enclave of two homes designed by noted master Modernist architect, Ira Rakatansky,  this 3052 square-foot house, built in 1955, has six bedrooms; three full baths, including an en suite master bath; a…

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Wassily Chair

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Bill Janovitz

Posted in Bauhaus, Marcel Breuer On Nov 25, 2011

From the Design Icon series:

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