China and Silverware Cabinet by Marcel Breuer

China and Silverware Cabinet c. 1957

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Dimensions 45 x 113.5 x 39 cm (17 11/16 x 44 11/16 x 15 3/8 in.)

Curator: Marcel Breuer's "China and Silverware Cabinet" at the Harvard Art Museums intrigues me. It’s a symphony of simple forms in wood, stark white, and clean lines. Editor: It strikes me as oddly serene, even though it’s a rather utilitarian object. The contrast between the warm wood and the cool white is surprisingly calming. Curator: I see Breuer playing with positive and negative space; the solid sliding door versus the open shelves and precisely divided drawers. Each compartment, each void, is as crucial as the solid elements. Editor: Absolutely. It almost feels like a Mondrian painting come to life, but with the added dimension of function. It invites interaction, doesn’t it? One can imagine the careful arrangement of objects within. Curator: It's a testament to functional elegance, stripped down to its bare essentials, don't you think? Editor: I agree. Its deceptive simplicity is deeply satisfying—a quiet assertion of modernist ideals, really.

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