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Marcel Breuer Cesca cantileverThe frame of this classic cantilever chair is made of chromed* steel tube. With armrests and highly processed woven cane (as known as octagon netting) on the back and the seat, this chair is an impressive piece of furniture. |
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Bauhaus designer Marcel Breuer was an German-American architect. After completing his apprenticeship as a carpenter at the Weimar Bauhaus, Breuer worked for several years in the office of Walter Gropius. After his emigration to the USA, he established the influential School of Architecture at Harvard University with Walter Gropius. Beside the Cesca cantilever chair Marcel Breuers design of the Wassily chair* and tables of the Laccio Table Set*, have become most famous. Even with and by Marcel Breuer the Bauhaus movement went to one of the most influential design languages of the "modernity" in architecture as well in the design of furniture classics. For many designers the chair appear to be the most complicated section of arts and crafts. On the Aesthetic impossibility of the chair made of steel, the writer Paul Scheerbar wrote in 1914. Even a decade later, tubular steel chairs, especially on the cantilever version of the Bauhaus style to the most spectacular design objects.
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