Designed by Marcel Breuer
American, born Hungary, 1902-1981
Manufactured by Isokon Furniture Company
England
Chaise Longue
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Designed by Marcel Breuer
American, born Hungary, 1902-1981
Manufactured by Isokon Furniture Company
England1936/37
Chaise Longue
Designed by Marcel Breuer American, born Hungary, 1902-1981 Manufactured by Isokon Furniture Company England →mid-century modernbauhausbritishfurniturechaise longue
Date
1936/37
Medium
Bent plywood, laminated and solid wood
Dimensions
71.8 × 60.6 × 141 cm (28 1/4 × 23 7/8 × 55 1/2 in.)
Museum
Art Institute of Chicago
Location
Chicago, IL
Credit
Gift of Sylvain Bellenger
After creating groundbreaking tubular steel furniture at the Bauhaus design school in Germany, Marcel Breuer moved to London and began a brief yet highly productive association with Jack Pritchard, an architect and promoter of modern design in Great Britain. Recognizing that metal furniture was likely too stark for British taste, Prichard’s company Isokon Furniture developed furniture in bent plywood that was inspired by pioneering work in this material by Finnish architect Alvar Aalto. Breuer’s lounge chair design for Isokon capitalized on the flexibility of plywood to replace legs and arms with a dynamic network of narrow wood ribbons for the chair’s arm rests, back, and sleigh-like base.
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