Steel tube, chromed, iron yarn covering, beech
Germany, 1928/29
Design: Marcel Breuer (1902-1981) - German-American architect and designer of Hungarian-Jewish origin
Manufacturing: 1930/40s, Thonet, Frankenberg
With original covering
Height: 82 cm, 59 x 80 cm, Steel tube diameter: 2,3 cm
Good condition
Tubular steel design icon by German-American architect and designer
Object is regular taxed. 19% VAT is added to the purchase price for deliveries within the EU.

The armchair B 35, designed by Marcel Breuer 1928/29, is the perfect example for the principal of the steel tube-cantilever chair. Up to the stabilizing crossbar is the armchair constructed out of a continuous line, by where the flexible effect is even more comfortable. Breuer created the armchair in this way, that you would never get in touch with the cold steel while be sitting. Therefore is the the covering of iron yarn and the wooden shelves of the arms responsible.

The armchair is 82 cm high and measures 59 x 80 cm. The diameter of the steel tube is c. 2,3 cm. The armchair is in good, original condition. The chroming is partly robbed and there are minor signs of corrosion. The original covering is patchy and shows a repaired laceration. The frame is slightly warped.

Marcel Breuer (1902-1981)

Marcel Lajos Breuer (1902-1981) was a German-American architect and designer. He ranks among the great modern masters due to his avant-garde furniture designs, developing his pioneering style at the Bauhaus school in Weimar. In 1925, he became the head of the Bauhaus Dessau furniture workshop and shaped the factual-industrial design concept. After his training at the Bauhaus school, he worked for many years in the interior furnishings department under Walter Gropius. Due to political persecution by the Nazi regime, he immigrated to the US and later joined Harvard’s architecture faculty.

Thonet

The furniture company Thonet was established by Michael Thonet (1796-1871) and is family-owned to this day. Michael Thonet began to develop the production of furniture from mechanic to industrial manufacturing. For this purpose, he experimented with bentwood. In 1836 he acquired the Michelsmuehle, a glue factory in Boppard, but encountered financial difficulties. He had to close this establishment in 1841 and moved to Vienna with his family. There he opened an establishment of his own again in 1849 he named it ‘Gebrueder Thonet’. He achieved his breakthrough design with the Viennese bistro chair, also known as Chair No. 14 (1859). The chair was designed at the first Thonet factory, which opened in Koritchan, Moravia in 1859. Factories later opened in various German, French, and Austrian locations. There, the company employed new working procedures to standardize manufacturing, such as division of labor and movable parts that made chairs a relatively cheap mass product. The chair turned Thonet into an internationally successful business; the company produced and sold two million different objects in 1912. It had sale locations across Europe as well as in Chicago and New York. In the 1930s, tubular steel was added as a new material and Thonet produced designs by Mart Stam, Marcel Breuer, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Even today, new designs in addition to the classics are produced in the company headquarters in Hessian Frankenberg.

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