DESIGNED BY MARCEL BREUER IN 1929, MANUFACTURED BY THONET, 1930S

Although an apparently simple design, this is arguably Breuer's most sophisticated and complex application of the cantilever principle, with the entire chair frame, including the arms, produced from a single bent tubular steel element, with the back supported only by the inherent tension created within the form. The model was included in Thonet's exhibit of the Deutsche Werkbund at the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs, Paris, in 1930 (see footnote to previous lot, reproduced opposite page).
See: Art et Décoration, 1930, No. LVIII, p. 18.
Wilk, (Breuer), p. 82/3.
Vegesack, p. 75.
Van Geest and Macel, p. 65.
Droste and Ludewig, no. 34, p. 95.
Ostergard (ed.), exh. cat. no. 78, p. 286.
Vitra Design Museum, exh. cat. no. 25.