As one of the main figures of the Bauhaus movement, Breuer helped to redefine the design landscape in the early portion of the 20th Century. One of his most long-lasting 'gifts' to the furniture industry was his employment of tubular steel as a core element of his designs, and it's no more fully on display than here in the Cesca Chair with Arms. With its upholstered seat and back, beautifully coated in Spinneybeck's lauded Volo leather, which is available in a range of memorable colour-ways, the Cesca chair is an endearing and enduring classic that has truly stood the test of time. The wider Cesca family, respectfully produced by Knoll, features a range of chairs and stools.
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.
