Description: ™ Chair - Arm Chair with Cane Seat & Back" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 6px; outline: none; border: 0px; font-variant-numeric: normal; font-variant-east-asian: normal; font-variant-alternates: normal; font-kerning: auto; font-optical-sizing: auto; font-feature-settings: normal; font-variation-settings: normal; font-weight: normal; font-stretch: normal; font-size: 30px; line-height: 32px; font-family: HelveticaNeueW01-75Bold, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; vertical-align: baseline; color: rgb(51, 51, 51); order: 1;">Set of 4 Cesca Chairs - 1981 Arm Chair with Cane Seat & BackMarcel Breuer 1928Marcel Breuer married traditional craftsmanship with industrial methods and materials to help make tubular steel furniture an international sensation and a modern institution. The cantilevered form exploits the possibilities unique to the material and gives the chair added flexibility and comfort. The iconic seat features woven cane inserts and a beech frame. “At that time I was rather idealistic. 23 years old. I made friends with a young architect, and I bought my first bicycle. I learned to ride the bicycle and talked to this young fellow and told him that the bicycle seems to be a perfect production because it hasn’t changed in the last twenty, thirty years. It is still the original bicycle form. He said, ‘Did you ever see how they make those parts? How they bend those handlebars? You would be interested because they bend those steel tubes like macaroni.’ This somehow remained in my mind, and I started to think about steel tubes which are bent into frames—probably that is the material you could use for an elastic and transparent chair. Typically, I was very much engaged with the transparency of the form. That is how the first chair was made…I realized that the bending had to go further. It should only be bent with no points of welding on it so it could also be chromed in parts and put together. That is how the first Wassily was born.”After completing the Wassily, Breuer felt that the potential grace of the material was not yet fully exploited. The Wassily design was very much influenced by the constructivist theories of the Dutch De Stjil movement. A familiar form — in this case the classic club chair — reduced to its elemental lines and planes. The result was an overlapping, dense arrangement of leather and tubing. For the Cesca chairs Breuer sought to better celebrate the new material. An attempt to reduce visual noise led him to the continuous line of steel supporting a cantilevered seat — one of the most copied concepts in 20th century furniture. Items on sale are sold as is as pictured no returns all sales are final. Thank you :)
Price: 1500 USD
Location: Sonora, California
End Time: 2024-05-01T17:14:08.000Z
Shipping Cost: 650 USD
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Return shipping will be paid by: Buyer
All returns accepted: Returns Accepted
Item must be returned within: 14 Days
Refund will be given as: Money Back
Brand: Knoll
Style: Mid-Century Modern
Original/Reproduction: Original
Material: Cane
Country/Region of Manufacture: Italy
