Sidney Wolfson asked Breuer to create a building around the trailer that he had been using as a studio. Breuer designed a wood-frame structure clad in vertical cypress which cantilevered over a smaller stone base. 

Marcel Breuer, Wolfson Trailer House, Pleasant Valley, NY USA, 1950. Photo: Ben Schnall. Source Marcel Breuer Archive

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