Combining traditional craftsmanship with industrial production, the Knoll Cesca Chair helped Marcel Breuer made tubular steel furniture an international sensation. The inherent strength of tubular steel allowed for a revolutionary cantilevered frame that has since inspired generations of furniture designers. This frame is combined with a hand-woven cane seat and back that add a touch of lightness and character to the design. In celebration of 100 years of the Bauhaus, Knoll has taken Marcel Breuer’s Cesca Chair to new heights, with the addition of the Knoll Cesca Stool - With Cane Seat & Back. Available in both bar and counter height, this simple yet sophisticated stool is perfect for use in any number of settings, including homes, offices and hospitality venues.
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.
