Marcel Breuer
(1902-1981)
Birthplace
Pecs, Hungary
Protégé of Bauhaus founder
Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer embodied many of the School's
distinctive concepts and was one of the School's most famous
students. He returned shortly thereafter to teach carpentry from
1925 to 1928, and during this time designed his tubular-steel
furniture collection: functional, simple and distinctly modern. His
attention drifted towards architecture, and after practicing
privately, he worked as a professor at Harvard’s School of
Design under Gropius. Breuer was also honored as the first
architect to be the sole artist of an exhibit at the Metropolitan
Museum of Art. The Wassily chair was named after his Bauhaus
roommate Wassily Kandinsky, the Cesca after his daughter
Francesca.
