The Marcel Breuer tea cart (model B54) first appeared in the form of a prototype in a photograph dated 1928. The Marcel Breuer cart was first shown in public in 1930 at the Salon des Artiste Decorateurs where Breuer designed the "apartment for a boardinghouse/hotel" as a representative of Deutscher Wekbund. The cart made another public appearance in 1932 when Marcel Breuer designed a house for the Berlin-Bau Austellung known as the "House for Sportsmen."

In 1935 the cart disappeared altogether in favour of other rather ordinary models with smaller wheels and no attribution. The trolley with three disk wheels appears in a photo of 1932 as an accessory in the kitchen of the Harnischmacher House I, in Wiesbaden. The disk-wheel trolley made its last appearance in the Highgate apartment for Mrs. Ventris, designed by Breuer in partnership with Francis Reginald York. A trolley is the collection of MOMA, and also shown at Neue Galerie, New York, New York.

Marcel Breuer is considered one of the fathers of Modernism, and known for a number of furniture designs, though perhaps no chair design is more famous than his Wassily Chair. Design in 1925, the Wassily Chair was the first bent-tubular steel-framed chair. The chair is a very simple form, yet quite comfortable, and exemplary in its use of Bauhaus design philosophy.

In the 1930s, Breuer fled from Germany to England, but eventually came to the United States where he taught with Walter Gropius at Harvard's architectural school.

In 1941 Marcel Breuer founded his own studio in New York. There he developed a number of residential designs. By the 1950s though Breuer was designing large commercial buildings. One of his more famous designs during this period of his career was the UNESCO headquarters building in Paris.

Manufactured in Italy.

Dimensions: H 31 1/2" x D 20" x W 40"

Materials: Serving cart with chrome-plated tubular steel frame. Tops in black or white pressurized laminate. The motion of the front wheel may cause a slight inclination of the surface.