Tag: Marcel Breuer

S35 by Breuer for Thonet

S35 by Marcel Breuer

This comfortable club chair was presented in 1930 at the Paris Grand Palais as a contribution by the Deutscher Werkbund. Together with Walter Gropius and Herbert Bayer, Marcel Breuer organized this premiere of contemporary German furniture production in France. With the S 35 he succeeded in integrating all of the functions of a tubular steel cantilever chair with the construction of a single uninterrupted line. The cantilever effect was thus doubled because the armrests, which flex independently from the seat, balance the swinging of the seat and backrest frame that projects towards the back. A matching footstool is available.
Frames chrome-plated tubular steel. Seat, backrest and footstool stretched with black full-grain butt leather or brown buffalo hide. Armrests in stained beech or oiled walnut.

Via Thonet

Chair by Gunta Stölzl and Marcel Breuer from 1921

Chair by Gunta Stölzl and Marcel Breuer from 1921

Chair by Gunta Stölzl and Marcel Breuer from 1921

The presence in Weimar of Theo van Doesburg, co-founder of the De Stijl movement, and the design principles that he promoted influenced the development of the Bauhaus from 1921 at the very latest. The chair made in 1921 by Marcel Breuer and Gunta Stölzl displays distinct formal evidence of the principles of the Dutch art group. Everything about this chair is rectangular: backrest, seat, the cross-section of the chair legs; even the woven tapestry strips form squares or rectangles. The colours for this piece were also selected according to the De Stijl concept with a palette limited to red, blue and yellow enhanced by black, white and grey.

Literature:
Siebenbrodt, Michael (Ed.): Bauhaus Weimar: Designs for the Future, Ostfildern-Ruit 2000.

Via fyeahwomenartists, via Gunta Stölzl – Bauhaus Master and via bauhaus-online

Once more an indication De Stijl had indeed influenced Bauhaus.

Early Slatted Marcel Breuer Chair

Early Slatted Marcel Breuer Chair

Early Slatted Marcel Breuer Chair

Both the London Design Museum and NY based Moma have one in their collection.

Influenced by? Rietveld I would say.

Just Chairs – 4 Famous Chairs Reinterpreted by Michael Kluver

Just Chairs - 4 Famous Chairs Reinterpreted by Michael Kluver
Just Chairs – 4 Famous Chairs Reinterpreted by Dutch designer Michael Kluver

From left to right: Eames, Breuer, Rietveld and MackIntosh

The chairs in this project are altered versions of modernist design classics. All pushed back into the simple archetype form. All of them are now dominated by simple ergonomic dimensions. Same seating height,seating width, seating depth, overall height, and angle of the backrest. Demystifying the past and asking important questions with regards to the future.

Via Michael Kluver: just chairs.

Chair WB 301 by Marcel Breuer


Chair WB 301 by Marcel Breuer

Lot 51

Chair, model no. WB 301, c. 1934

Bent aluminum, painted plywood. 74 cm (29 1/8 in) high Manufactured by Embru-Werke AG, Switzerland, for Stylclair, France. Stretcher impressed with ’58 301′ and metal lable with ‘MEUB ES STYLCLAIR/LYON PARIS’.

ESTIMATE £5,000-7,000

via Phillips de Pury & Company.

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