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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.
The first designs of this chair where influenced by Mart Stam's gas tube chair, which, as the first chair without back legs, was the forerunner of all cantilever chairs. The designer Sergius Ruegenberg [ de ] , who worked in Mies van der Rohe's office at the time, described the creation of the Weissenhof chair in 1985: "Mies came back from ...
Stam was extraordinarily well-connected, and his career intersects with important moments in the history of 20th-century European architecture, including the invention of the cantilever chair, [3] teaching at the Bauhaus, [4] contributions to the Weissenhof Estate, the Van Nelle Factory, (an important modernist landmark in Rotterdam), buildings ...
The Brno chair (model number MR50) is a modernist cantilever chair designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich in 1929-1930 for the bedroom of the Tugendhat House in Brno, Czech Republic. The design was based on similar chairs created by Mies van der Rohe working with Lilly Reich , such as the MR20 chair with wicker seat from 1927; all ...
Like the Barcelona chair, the Tugendhat chair has a large padded leather seat and back, supported by leather straps mounted on a steel frame and legs. However, like one variant of the Brno chair, the frame is flat solid steel, formed under into a C-shape under the seat to create a cantilever. Versions exist with or without leather-padded steel ...
C. Cabriolet (furniture) Campeche chair; Canapé à confidante; Cantilever chair; Caquetoire; Centripetal Spring Armchair; Cesca chair; Chadwick modular seating
The Japanese designer, Noboru Nakamura , created the original "Poem" chair in 1975 in collaboration with product manager Lars Engman, who later headed up the IKEA design team. [ 3 ] [ 4 ] [ 5 ] The design of both the Poem and Poäng chairs resemble that of the " Armchair 406 ," created by the Finnish designer Alvar Aalto in 1939.
Chair, c. 1772, mahogany, covered in modern red morocco leather, height: 97.2 cm, Metropolitan Museum of Art (New York City) A chair is a type of seat, typically designed for one person and consisting of one or more legs, a flat or slightly angled seat and a back-rest.