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Marcel
Breuer Biography
1. B3
Wassily Chair 1927
2. Armchair, 1921
3. Wood slat chair, 1923
4. Children's chairs, 1923
5. Stool ti 13, Chair ti 2, 1924
6. Various design stages of B3 'Wassily
Chair', 1925-1927
7. Folding armchair B4 (2nd version),
1927
8. Chair B5 & Armchair B11, 1926/27
9. Chair - precursor of B5 (left) &
Chair B5 (right), 1926/27
10. Chair B6, 1925
11. Nest of tables B9-B9c, 1925/26
12. Side table B12 & Shelves B22, 1928
13. Table B19, 1928
14. Chair B33, 1927/28
15. Armchair B34, 1928 & Child's armchair
B34 ½, 1929
16. Kitchen cupboard, 1929
17. Desk B91 (?), 1930
18. Chaise-longue, 1932/34
19. Chair & Armchair, 1936
20. Nest of tables, 1936
21. Armchair, 1936
22. Armchair, 1945
23. Examples in Catalogue
Other designers
24. Mart Stam, Chair - the first cantilever
chair, 1926
25. Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, 'MR 20',
1927
26. Famous De Stjil chair 'Red and
Blue Chair' by Gerrit Rietveld
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BRIEF BIOGRAPHY
Marcel
Breuer. 1902-1981
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1902
born in Hungary
1920
joined the Bauhaus in Weimar
1924
left the Bauhaus to work as an architect in Paris
1925
returned to the Bauhaus in Dessau, where he became head of the
furniture workshop and produced a succession of tubular steel
furniture
1928
left the Dessau Bauhaus, at the same time as Walter Gropius,
and went on to work as a furniture designer and interior designer
in Berlin
1932-1934
worked on aluminium furniture, winning a competition with
his designs in Paris in 1933. His aluminium chairs went into
production in 1934.
1935
moved to London where he worked as an architect and designed
plywood furniture
1937
moved to the USA where he primarily worked as an architect,
taught at Harvard University and founded an architectural partnership
with Walter Gropius
1981
died in New York.
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