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Marcel Breuer For Thonet B35 Cantilever Leather Sling Lounge Chairs Set of 2

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Handsome set of mid-century modern cantilever black leather lounge chairs designed by Marcel Breuer for Thonet. These model B35 armchairs demonstrate a European Modern Bauhaus discipline that will keep them forever timeless. The tubular chromed steel frame is shaped into an innovative "S" cantilever form that provides for a relaxed, bounce when you sit. The cantilever essentially acts as a spring adding bounce flexibility and comfort with help of the stitched leather. Both chairs have their original buffalo leather with age appropriate scuffs and imperfections. We are not certain on production date, but our best guess is 1960's - 1970's. Purchase with confidence. Our restoration team gave this set a full detailing, without removing any of the original patina. Both chairs are very sturdy and ready for many more decades of use. Following the success of his "Wassily" chair, Breuer continued to experiment with tubular steel furniture. He partnered with the German manufacturer Thonet, designing a number of chairs, stools, and ottomans made from this lightweight, traditionally industrial material. In the "B35" armchair, Breuer employed seemingly continuous steel runners as the chair's frame. The seat and back were upholstered in simple canvas, and the armrests padded with lacquered wood. Both the seat and armrests are dramatically cantilevered without vertical supports, emphasizing both the tensile strength and the slenderness of the tubular steel construction. Like Breuer's "Wassily" chair, the "B35" was not a direct product of the Bauhaus; it does, however, clearly conform to Bauhaus principles of design and construction, with its modern, stripped-down form made from industrial materials not typically used in furniture at this time. Measures: 25.5" w x 32" d x 33.25" h x 14.75" seat height

Creator:
Marcel Breuer (Designer),Thonet (Maker)
Design:
B35 Lounge Chair
Dimensions:
Height: 33.25 in (84.46 cm)Width: 25.5 in (64.77 cm)Depth: 32 in (81.28 cm)Seat Height: 14.75 in (37.47 cm)
Sold As:
Set of 10
Style:
Bauhaus (In the Style Of)
Materials and Techniques:
Chrome,Leather,Metal
Place of Origin:
Germany
Period:
Mid-20th Century
Date of Manufacture:
1970's
Condition:
Wear consistent with age and use. Very good original condition. Light oxidization on chrome. Leather has scuffs minor age-appropriate imperfections. Chrome has been polished and leather has been conditioned. Leather straps underneath are adjustable and function properly.
Seller Location:
Chattanooga, TN
Reference Number:
1stDibs: LU2255337821862
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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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