One of the most iconic creations of the Bauhaus school, the cantilevered form of the Cesca Chair takes complete advantage of the tubular steel material, allowing for the chair to have additional flexibility and greater comfort. A masterpiece of industrial design, Breuer has brought together longstanding traditional workmanship with the modern industrial-scale design that was coming of age in the early Twentieth Century. Ideal for dining or lounging, the Knoll Cesca Chair makes for an impressive addition to any social space. This upholstered version of the chair is covered in Hallingdal fabric, ensuring that a suitably premium finish completes the look.
A protege of Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius, Hungarian-born modernist architect and furniture designer Marcel Breuer embodied many of the School's distinctive concepts and was one of the School's most famous students. Breuer returned to the Bauhaus to teach carpentry from 1925 to 1928 and during this time designed his functional, simple and distinctly modern tubular-steel furniture collection. His attention drifted towards architecture, and after practising privately, he worked as a professor at Harvard's School of Design under Gropius. Breuer was also honoured as the first architect to be the sole artist of an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Marcel Breuer's most famous designs include the Wassily lounge chair, named after his Bauhaus room mate Wassily Kandinsky, and the Cesca after his daughter Francesca.
