MB-WB 301

Marcel Breuer WB 301 chair, frame cut from a single steel sheet, three-quarter view

MB-WB 301

Chair by Marcel Breuer, "WB 301," designed circa 1933-1934. It belongs to a phase in which Breuer tested a third construction method, after wood and after tubular steel: bent flat steel. His cooperation with the Swiss manufacturer Embru, begun in 1931, pushed him towards this material. The whole frame is cut from a single sheet, including the backrest supports. It is bent into two long runners that carry the chair like skids. The seat curves down over the front rail. The backrest panel sits on top of this cut frame.

Dimensions:

75 x 38 x 50 cm / 29.5 x 15 x 20 in

Materials:

Lacquered steel, painted wood

Literature:

1. Friederike Mehlau-Wiebking, Arthur Rüegg and Ruggero Tropeano, Schweizer Typenmöbel 1925–1935: Sigfried Giedion und die Wohnbedarf AG (Zurich: gta Verlag, 1989), p. 165.
2. Charlotte Fiell and Peter Fiell, 1000 Chairs (Cologne: Taschen, 1997), p. 224.
3. Torsten Bröhan and Thomas Berg, Design Classics 1890–1930 (Cologne: Taschen, 2001), p. 92.
4. Alexander von Vegesack and Mathias Remmele, eds., Marcel Breuer: Design and Architecture (Weil am Rhein: Vitra Design Museum, 2003), pp. 110, 136.

Terms:

Certificate of Authenticity included
Worldwide shipping available
14-day return policy

Enquiries:

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