Two Bauhaus classics for the price of one. These are on display in MoMA, NYC. To the front is a Barcelona Chair by Mies van der Rohe. A classic of 20th century modernist furniture design. The black Tubular Steel Chair is designed by Marcel Breuer 1928-29.
When Marcel Breuer arrived in London in 1935, he was asked to design furniture for Isokon, alias the Isometric Unit Construction company. Breuer told its owner Jack Pritchard that he wanted to continue developing the metal pieces he had worked on as a teacher at the Bauhaus in the mid-1920s. Pritchard briskly informed him that, as the British were far too traditional to buy metal furniture, Breuer should work in wood instead, preferably plywood.
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