Breuers skid chair
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In 1925, Marcel Breuer rotated his Bauhaus stool through 90 degrees and created the B5 chair (Tecta B40). Breuer’s ingenious idea of transferring lightweight bicycle-building principles to furniture design opened up completely new avenues for the furniture industry.
Tecta later launched Breuers B5 chair as a re-edition under the name B40.
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Marcel Breuer’s B5 (Tecta B40) chair in theatre director Erwin Piscator’s apartment, Berlin, 1927
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Iconic but yet as ethereal as if Marcel Breuer had made it by magic. Nonetheless, the B40 chair was born out of a new design idea: Breuer simply rotated his Bauhaus stool by 90 degrees to create it. The resulting B40 became the epitome of Bauhaus modernism, which revolted against heavy furniture and all that was bulky. The catalogue of Breuer’s “Standard Möbel” furniture company describes it as follows: “Fabric-covered tubular steel furniture offers all the comfort of well-upholstered furnishings without their weight, expense, cumbersome bulk and unhygienic qualities.” View product
