Bauhaus furniture design was based on the premise that it was neccessary to develop new and radically different forms for the pieces of furniture that would be in the modern home. The cantilevered chair shown here, designed by Marcel Breuer in 1928,  is now so familiar that it is hard to imagine the shock of seeing a chair without back legs, formed from a seemingly continuous loop of chrome-plated steel.

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

The Bauhaus cantilever chair (D 40) - designed by Marcel Breuer at the Bauhaus Dessau in 1928 - is a cantilever chair. The D 40 armrests are made of beech - natural or black colored and frame is made of nickel plated steel, the seat and back are made of either natural cane wicker work or leather, black, white or nature or in a special fabric called 'Eisengarn'. Eisengarn is a very strong fabric developed by the Bauhaus Dessau to assure that the seat and back covering stays in shape even after a long time use.

Made in Germany.  A licensed reproduction.

Dimensions: H 34 1/2"   D 24"   W 21"  SH 18 1/4"

Materials: Frame nickel plated, armrests in beechwood. Natural wicker.  Also available in iron-yarn-belts black, blue, red or green, black or white hide leather CORA red, dark blue, blue or black, wickerwork or natural cane