Marcel Breuer Cesca Chair Original

The cantilevered form exploits the possibilities unique to the material and gives the chair added flexibility and.

Marcel breuer cesca chair original. Set of 6 cane chrome marcel breuer cesca thonet style dining armchairs. Born from the bauhaus. These classic bar stools and chairs have a functional design that works well in both your home or. The three official manufacturers of the chair were.

This ionic chair is named after his daughter francesca. The breuer chair has been made for over fifty years and is the world s most popular chair. Marcel adios breuer ˈ b r ɔɪ. He is one of the great architects and furniture designers of the 20th century.

A high quality replica of the original cesca chair designed and created by marcel breuer in 1928 aniline leather or italian leather seat and backrest upholstery that s mounted on a durable ended stainless steel tube to ensure durability and make the chair capable of carrying most weights. It was named cesca as a tribute to breuer s adopted daughter francesca nicknamed cheska. At the bauhaus he designed the wassily chair and the cesca chair which is among the 10 most important chairs of the 20 th century breuer extended the sculpture vocabulary he had developed in the carpentry shop at the bauhaus into a personal. 21 may 1902 1 july 1981 was a hungarian born modernist architect and furniture designer.

This marcel breuer chair is also one of the first tubular frame caned seat chair to be mass produced. In 1968 the chair was purchased by knoll associates today known as the knoll group since then approximately 250 000 of the chairs have been purchased. Cesca chair knoll original. Designed in 1928 marcel breuer s cesca chair married traditional craftsmanship with industrial methods and materials to help make tubular steel furniture an international sensation and a modern institution.

In adherence to the institution s rationalist ideals breuer sought a material suitable for mass production that could also render an artful furniture form. Our breuer cesca chair is influenced by designer marcel breuer a hungarian american architect. The breuer cesca chair is both modern and classic. Marcel lajos breuer designer of the breuer chair couldn t have possibly imagined how popular his chair would be.

The knoll group manufactured over 250 000 of these marcel breuer chairs thanks to the steady popularity of this iconic design. Shortly after finishing his design for the wassily chair breuer continued his explorations of the plastic possibilities of tubular steel with the b32 or the cesca chair as it is now popularly called in this case he molded the material into a single snaking outline onto which he attached two beechwood frames covered in caning. Original marcel breuer cane chrome arm chair cesca arm chairs. Chairs cesca designed by marcel breuer cesca chairs designed by marcel.