A laminated birch chaise longue

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A laminated birch chaise longue
designed by Marcel Breuer, c.1935, for The Isokon Furniture Co.

The brace applied to the underside of the front supports is a reflection of the structural design complications inherant in the earlier examples of this chair
"Ease, Comfort and Wellbeing...Try it after dinner...Ten minutes in an Isokon long chair after a meal is as good as any medicine", Isokon sales brochure, c.1930's

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