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945 Madison Avenue

945 Madison Avenue, also known as the Breuer Building and formerly the Whitney Museum Building, is located on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, New York City. Built from 1964 to 1966 as the third home of the Whitney Museum of American Art, it subsequently held a branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Frick Collection before becoming the headquarters of Sotheby's auction house. Marcel Breuer and Hamilton P.…

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1966

Manhattan, Manhattan, United States

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945 Madison Avenue in Manhattan, United States

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Museum building in New York City

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Marcel Breuer

1902-1981 · New York, New York, United States

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Marcel Lajos Breuer was a Hungarian-American modernist architect and furniture designer. He moved to the United States in 1937 and became a naturalized American citizen in 1944.

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Marcel Breuer Associates

practice · New York, New York, United States

Role: designer

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