Marcel Breuer
"Structure is not just a means to a solution. It is also a principle and a passion." - Marcel Breuer
Marcel Breuer was born in Hungary in 1902 and initially studied in Vienna before moving to the Bauhaus in Weimar in 1920, where he completed an apprenticeship as a carpenter. From 1925 to 1928, he headed the furniture workshop and designed two pioneering design icons, the tubular steel chair "Wassily" and the cantilever chair for Thonet.
After the Bauhaus was closed, Breuer emigrated to London in 1935 and later to the USA, where he founded an architecture firm together with Walter Gropius. He became internationally known for important buildings such as the UNESCO building in Paris and the Whitney Museum in New York.
His collaboration with Thonet resulted in further classics, including the cantilever chairs S 32 and S 64 as well as the desk S 285.
