Marcel Breuer.
Chair Ceska. Chair Wassily.
Chipboard Laggio.

Also Marcel Breuer´s famous works: chair Ceska and chair Wassily or his chipboard Laggio take their place in our assortment. People often connect his name with the epoch-making period of bauhaus.

Born in former Hungary, Marrcel Breuer as other contemporary artists from Bauhaus or De Stijl was an advocat of a classic design and shaping. His global work composed of many artistic facets has been saved as we still have for instance his famous chair Wassily consisting of steel and chrome, just as his swinging chair Ceska and finally Laggio, a small melamine chromium-plated chipboard, all of them having a firm place in our product range.

Marcel Breuer spent a short time working in a Viennese architectural office before studying at the Bauhaus, Weimar, 1920 – 24.

After graduating, he became master of the furniture workshop there and continued in that capacity when the Bauhaus moved to Dessau in 1925.

He directed his own architectural firm in Berlin from 1928 to 1931 before leaving Germany where he spent a year in London, 1935 – 37, working first as an architect in partnership with F.R.S. Yorke and later as Controller of Design at Isokon.

In 1937 he emigrated to the United States of America and was an associate professor at the School of Design at Harvard University from 1937 to 1946.

Between 1937 and 1941 he shared an architectural practice in Cambridge, Massachusetts, with Walter Gropius.

From 1946 he headed his own firm, Marcel Breuer & Associates, in New York until retirement in 1976.

Marcel Breuer´s chair Ceska, his chair Wassily and his chipboard Laggio are still available in our furniture online store