Design: Marcel Breuer, 1925
Manufacturer: Standard Möbel GmbH Berlin, c.1929.
Material: tubular steel, chromed, seat: iron yarn, red.
Maße: h: 33,1“ w: 17,7“ x d: 23,8 in.
The hungarian designer and architect
Marcel Breuer came 1920 as a student to the Bauhaus in Weimar. He worked there in the workshop for furniture lead by Walter Gropius. 1925 Breuer took over the leadership of this workshop in Dessau and in the same year he drafted the first tubular steel stool „B5“ and the seat „B3“,which has become known under the name "Wassily". These his first chairs were manufactured from thin pipes and didn’nt waive on the supporting of four legs.
Together with his hungarian compatriot, the architect Kalman Lengyel, he founded the
Standard furniture company in 1926/27.
This small Berlin company with their little 20 models is already a legend. It is the first company which was founded to provide in terms of the new claim and the new ideology. Standard furniture are conceived in the spirit of the Bauhaus. The whole program bears the signature of Marcel Breuers. The models have been advocated first as " tubular steel furniture system Breuer ", than as "Breuer metal furniture" and then came on the slogan "the new furniture”. The chairs are square, angular and rectangular. They were closed to the constructivism and have been identified as the new machine age. For the static "linked" construction thin pipes were used (c. 18-25 mm Diameter), in contrast to the "cantilever" constructions (up to 25 mm). Accordingly, the B5 has little weight. At the end of the 1920s the models has been chromed, which had more aesthetic than technical reasons. The "shiny outside" correspondents with the machine impression.
For the grill cloth the "most classic" solution was the iron yarn, a feast woven yarn with metal, which obtained necessary capacity: It doesn’t extend and dent. The clear colouring brought new clear accents into the room.
In: Alexander von Vegesack: Deutsche Stahlrohrmöbel, München 1986, p.41.
In: Quittenbaum Auction 83, Bauhaus reloaded, 20.6.2009, Lot 8340, 4000€.
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