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Set of 4 Marcel Breuer Cesca Metal and Wood Mid-Century Modern Chairs, C. 1960

Name: Set of 4 Marcel Breuer Cesca Metal and Wood Mid-Century Modern Chairs, C. 1960
Brand: Marcel Breuer
Availability: InStock

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This set of four Cesca chairs, designed by Marcel Breuer, is a true testament to the iconic Bauhaus movement of the 20th century. Manufactured in Italy by an unknown manufacturer circa 1960, these chairs feature a unique combination of materials including a metal pipe frame, wood seat and back structure, and rattan. Although these chairs are in good original condition with minor wear consistent with age and use, the seats have been re-caned using the same traditional technique, ensuring that they are both beautiful and functional. These Cesca chairs are an excellent example of the Bauhaus design principles of form follows function, with a focus on simplicity, functionality, and minimalism. They are the perfect addition to any space seeking a touch of sophistication and a nod to the history of modern design. Set of 4 Cesca chairs, designed by Marcel Breuer. Manufactured in Italy, circa 1960 by Unknown Manufacturer In good original condition, with minor wear consistent with age and use, preserving a beautiful patina. Materials: Metal pipe frame, wood seat and back structure and rattan. Dimensions: D 54.2 cm x W 46.5 cm x H 79 cm. About designer: Marcel Breuer (1902-1981), was a Hungarian-born modernist, architect and furniture designer. One of the masters of Modernism, Breuer extended the sculptural vocabulary he had developed in the carpentry shop at the Bauhaus into a personal architecture that made him one of the world's most popular architects at the peak of 20th century design. Important information regarding color(s) of products: Actual colors may vary. This is due to the fact that every computer monitor, laptop, tablet and phone screen has a different capability to display colors and that everyone sees these colors differently. We try to edit our photos to show all of our products as life-like as possible, but please understand the actual color may vary slightly from your monitor. Important information regarding image of products: The item that it selling is on the first image.

Creator:

Marcel Breuer (Designer)

Dimensions:

Height: 31.3 in (79.5 cm)Width: 18.19 in (46.2 cm)Depth: 21.34 in (54.2 cm)Seat Height: 18.12 in (46 cm)

Sold As:

Set of 4

Style:

Mid-Century Modern (In the Style Of)

Materials and Techniques:

Metal,Rattan,Wood

Place of Origin:

Italy

Period:

1960-1969

Date of Manufacture:

circa 1960

Condition:

Wear consistent with age and use.

Seller Location:

Barcelona, ES

Reference Number:

Seller: NL.7.03.23.GB.1051stDibs: LU1427233166332

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Marcel Breuer

The architect and designer Marcel Breuer was one the 20th century’s most influential and innovative adherents of modernism. A member of the Bauhaus faculty, Breuer — like such colleagues as the architects Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and the artists and art theoreticians László Moholy-Nagy and Josef Albers — left Europe in the 1930s to champion the new design philosophy and its practice in the United States.

Born in Hungary, Breuer became a Bauhaus student in 1920 and quickly impressed Gropius, the German school’s founder, with his aptitude for furniture design. His early work was influenced by the minimalist Dutch design movement De Stijl — in particular the work of architect Gerrit Rietveld.

In 1925, while he was head of the Bauhaus furniture workshop, Breuer realized his signature innovation: the use of lightweight tubular-steel frames for chairs, tables and sofas — a technique soon adopted by Mies and others. Breuer’s attention gradually shifted from design to architecture, and, at the urging of Gropius, he joined his mentor in 1937 on the faculty of Harvard and in an architectural practice.

In the 1940s, Breuer opened his own architectural office, and there his style evolved from geometric, glass-walled structures toward a kind of hybrid architecture — seen in numerous Breuer houses in New England — that pairs bases of local fieldstone with sleek, wood-framed modernist upper floors. In his later, larger commissions, Breuer worked chiefly with reinforced concrete and stone, as seen in his best-known design, the brutalist inverted ziggurat built in New York in 1966 as the home of the Whitney Museum of American Art.

Breuer’s most famous furniture pieces are those made of tubular steel, which include the Wassily chair — named after Wassily Kandinsky and recognizable for its leather-strap seating supports — and the caned Cesca chair.

Breuer also made several notable designs in molded plywood, including a chaise and nesting table for the British firm Isokon and a student furniture suite commissioned in 1938 for a dormitory at Bryn Mawr College. Whether in metal or wood, Breuer’s design objects are elegant and adaptable examples of classic modernist design — useful and appropriate in any environment.

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