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Bunshaft worked with Edward Durell Stone , worked three months for industrial designer Raymond Loewy , whom he considered a phony, and eventually became a partner in the New York office of the young firm Skidmore, Owings And Merrill . Bunshaft was a Modernist whose early influences included Mies Van Der Rohe and Le Corbusier . His best-known design is the Lever House , built as a corporate headquarters for the soap company Lever Brothers. His design for the Manufacturers Hanover Trust Branch Bank (1953), the first post-war 'transparent' bank on the east coast, is a modernist gem. Bunshaft's only single-family residence is the 2300 square foot (210 m²) Travertine House, built for his own family and owned by Martha Stewart from 1995 through 2005. The house was destroyed in July 2005 by its new owner Donald Maharam. In the 1950s , Bunshaft was hired by the State Department 's Office Of Foreign Building Operations as a collaborator on the design for several U.S. Consulate s in Germany . BUILDINGS
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