Gavina Dining Room Chairs

Set of 8 MR 10 cantilever chairs (256cs) by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. This set is made in high quality black vegetable tanned saddle leather by Gavina in Italy c.1980s. An absolute icon of the Bauhaus Movement and influential to the entire Mid Century Modern Period. Comfortable and perfectly balanced they have become one of the most enduring designs of the 20th Century with manufacturing starting in 1927 and still continuing to this day. Originally designed as a dining chair they work equally well as side chairs or as a set of funky office meeting room or conference chair. The concept of using metal tubing as a supporting structure in chair design is credited to the British manufacturer RW Winfield who produced campaign chairs in a cantilever design for the Great Exhibition in 1851. This original design was known and documented to have been an inspiration to both Marcel Breuer and van der Rohe. Breuer was the first to produce a design in chrome pipe work and inspired by the curved handlebars of his Adler bicycle he designed the Wassily chair in 1925. Although this was not a cantilever chair it helped to establish a base production method that was built on by others. This resulted in the first true cantilever chrome chair, the S33, being designed by Mart Stam in 1926. Thereafter, van der Rohe designed the MR10 in 1927, the Brno chair in 1930 and Breuer 2 further chairs in 1928, the B32 (later named the Cesca chair after his daughter Francesca) and the B33 which was a derivative of Stam’s S33.

Clean Lined Cesca Model Dining Chairs, designed by Marcel Breuer, and probably made for Gavina, Italy, circa 1980s. They are not an exact matched set. Two chairs are 31"H, and two ar...

Japanese designer Kazuhide Takahama (1930–2010) started working in Kazuo Fuioka’s studio soon after completing his architecture studies in Tokyo. In 1957 he oversaw the design of Jap...

Chairs H94 L47.5 D50cm Seat Height: 46.5cm Among Carlo Scarpa’s last designs, this set in solid oak marries a modernist geometry with playful construction. Ebonised crossbars provid...

Italian mid-century modern set of 8 black wood, steel and Vienna straw Cesca chairs by Marcel Breuer for Gavina, 1960s. Set of 8 Cesca model chairs with armrests, with seat and back ...

Iconic set of MR 10 (256CS) Cantilever dining chairs designed by Mies van der Rohe for Fasem, Italy. Chrome plated steel tubular frames with black coloured seats and backrest in sadd...

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe "MR10" chairs for Gavina Knoll, straw and steel, Italy, 1927, set of eight. The "MR10" is one of the most iconic design chairs of all time, introduced for t...

Tobia Scarpa “Pigreco” dining chairs for Gavina, black leather and walnut, Italy, 1960, set of six. Created for the furniture design course of Fr...

Set of 4 chairs in chromed metal, black wood and cane. Original chairs by Marcel Breuer stamped Gavina (2 with Gavina labels and 2 with labels removed over time). Dimensions: seat he...

Carlo Scarpa Dining Chairs for Gavina, 1974, oak wood, Italy, set of six. Designed by Carlo Scarpa for Gavina in 1974, these modernist dining cha...

Beautiful set of 4 original B64 “Cesca” dining chairs produced by Gavina in 1968. Cesca chairs were originally designed in 1928 by French Hungarian architect Marcel Breuer and named ...

Set of 4 'cesca' S32 bauhaus design chairs. Original design dates from 1926 by Marcel breuer. These where produced and labelled by Gavina in the 1970s Tubular chrome frame, cane s...