AMERICAN HUNGARIAN LIBRARY AND HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Amerikai Magyar Könyvtár és Történelmi Társulat
Book Presentation
Date and time is TBD
|New York
Join us for a presentation of Ágnes Anna Sebestyén’s From Tubular Steel Chairs to Brutalism: The Marcel Breuer Collection in Budapest, a new bilingual Hungarian-English publication exploring the Hungarian Museum of Architecture’s Marcel Breuer Collection.
Time & Location
Date and time is TBD
New York, 215 E 82nd St, New York, NY 10028, USA
About the Event
The book presents the Hungarian Museum of Architecture’s collection related to the world-famous architect and designer Marcel Breuer. It highlights the museum’s recent acquisition from Breuer’s cottage in Cape Cod, as well as a donation of objects from Michael Szarvasy, a New York-based collector of Hungarian origin. The book is a bilingual Hungarian-English publication.
About the author: Ágnes Anna Sebestyén is an art historian and curator at the Hungarian Museum of Architecture in Budapest. For nearly fifteen years, she has worked as a researcher and curator specializing in 20th-century modern architecture, and she has published articles in both Hungarian and English. The Marcel Breuer Collection of the Hungarian Museum of Architecture was successfully acquired in 2025 thanks to her coordination.
