Classic designs are around for a reason. Why one piece becomes a sensation over another is always a matter of debate. In the case of Hungarian-born designer Marcel Breuer, his Wassily chair began as a ...

Every time you plop yourself down in a chair at work, rush to your favorite seat in class, or lounge at your desk at home, you can thank the Bauhaus Movement. The Bauhaus was originally a German arts ...

To paraphrase the great comic-strip possum Pogo, "We have seen chairs, and they are us." Unlike the practical table or the bland, beckoning bed, a chair is never simply a chair. Taking the shape of a ...

The Isokon Furniture Company is reissuing a bent plywood armchair designed by Marcel Breuer 80 years ago. Featuring simple storage spaces within its bent plywood arms, the chair capitalized on a then ...

Erich Consemüller, “Woman in a B3 Club Chair by Marcel Breuer wearing a Mask by Oskar Schlemmer and a Dress by Lis Beyer” (1926) (© Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin) PARIS — L’Esprit du Bauhaus (“The Bauhaus ...

Born in Hungary, Marcel Breuer was one of the 20th century’s best-known modernist architects and furniture designers. Over the course of his career, the Bauhaus-trained Breuer designed more than 100 ...

Marcel Breuer was a Hungarian architect and furniture designer, best known for the iconic design of what is now known as the Breuer Building. Located at the corner of Madison Avenue and 75th Street in ...

Since the 1930s, "Bauhaus" has become shorthand for a specific visual style: abstract geometry, bold sans-serif letterforms and, especially, streamlined architecture. But the Bauhaus was more than ...