Gane Pavilion
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The Gane Pavilion or Gane's Pavilion was a temporary building designed by the modernist architect
and furniture designer Marcel Breuer
and F. R. S. Yorke
and built in Bristol
in the United Kingdom
. The pavilion was commissioned by Crofton Gane, a Bristol-based furniture manufacturer, as a showroom to display his range of products at the Royal Agricultural Show in 1936. Breuer had redesigned Gane's house the year before. The Gane pavilion was a flat-roofed building with planes of local stone and glass walls. The interior was finished with plywood.
Architect
An architect is a person trained in the planning, design and oversight of the construction of buildings. To practice architecture means to offer or render services in connection with the design and construction of a building, or group of buildings and the space within the site surrounding the...
and furniture designer Marcel Breuer
Marcel Breuer
Marcel Lajos Breuer , was a Hungarian-born modernist, architect and furniture designer of Jewish descent. One of the masters of Modernism, Breuer displayed interest in modular construction and simple forms.- Life and work :Known to his friends and associates as Lajkó, Breuer studied and taught at...
and F. R. S. Yorke
F. R. S. Yorke
Francis Reginald Stevens Yorke , known professionally as F. R. S. Yorke and informally as Kay or K, was an English architect and author....
and built in Bristol
Bristol
Bristol is a city, unitary authority area and ceremonial county in South West England, with an estimated population of 433,100 for the unitary authority in 2009, and a surrounding Larger Urban Zone with an estimated 1,070,000 residents in 2007...
in the United Kingdom
United Kingdom
The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandIn the United Kingdom and Dependencies, other languages have been officially recognised as legitimate autochthonous languages under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages...
. The pavilion was commissioned by Crofton Gane, a Bristol-based furniture manufacturer, as a showroom to display his range of products at the Royal Agricultural Show in 1936. Breuer had redesigned Gane's house the year before. The Gane pavilion was a flat-roofed building with planes of local stone and glass walls. The interior was finished with plywood.