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B55 Cantilever chair by Marcel Breuer. A cantilever chair is a chair whose seating and framework are not supported by the typical arrangement of 4 legs, but instead is held erect and aloft by a single leg or legs that are attached to one end of a chair's seat and bent in an L shape, thus also serving as the chair's supporting base.
Marcel Lajos Breuer (/ ˈ b r ɔɪ. ər / BROY-ər; 21 May 1902 – 1 July 1981) was a Hungarian-German modernist architect and furniture designer. He moved to the United States in 1937 and became a naturalized American citizen in 1944.
Pages in category "Marcel Breuer furniture" ... Cesca chair; W. Wassily Chair This page was last edited on 5 February 2023, at 23:27 (UTC ...
1921 The African chair with Gunta Stölzl (while still a student) 1923 Furniture and built-in cabinetry for the Haus am Horn, Weimar (while still a student) 1925 First all-tubular steel chair (the Wassily) 1925 Stool / Side Table of tubular steel (leading to cantilevered chair)
The Wassily Chair, also known as the Model B3 chair, was designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925–1926 while he was the head of the cabinet-making workshop at the Bauhaus, in Dessau, Germany. Despite popular belief, the chair was not designed specifically for the non-objective painter Wassily Kandinsky , who was on the Bauhaus faculty at the same time.
Marcel Breuer. Long Chair, c. 1935–1936 Brooklyn Museum. The Isokon Long Chair is a chair designed by Marcel Breuer for the Isokon company in 1935–36. The chair is considered one of the most important pieces of furniture to emerge from the inter-war modern movement [1] and it is in the permanent collections of several internationally renowned museums including the Victoria and Albert Museum.
Side view of a Cesca chair. The Cesca chair (/ ˈ tʃ ɛ s k ə /) is a chair design created in 1928 by the Hungarian-American architect and designer Marcel Breuer. It consists of a tubular steel frame and a rattan seat and backing. [1] [2] The design was named as a tribute to Breuer’s adopted daughter Francesca (nicknamed Cesca). [3]
This led almost immediately to variations on the cantilevered tubular-steel chair theme by both Mies van der Rohe and Marcel Breuer, and began an entire genre of chair design. In the late 1920s, Breuer and Stam were involved in a patent lawsuit in German courts, both claiming to be the inventor of the basic cantilever chair design principle ...