Cantilever tubular-steel chair
Silla de tubo de acero en voladizo
- Date
- 1926-1928 · confidence medium
- Place
- Weissenhof, Stuttgart, Germany
- Credited to
- Mart Stam, Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
- Field
- Tools
⚠️ Disputed: the sources disagree.
What it is
A chair without rear legs whose seat is held cantilevered on a bent steel tube, giving an elastic flexibility. Stam, Breuer and Mies developed it almost at the same time in the 1920s from bicycle steel tubing.
Priority is disputed: Mart Stam showed his chair in 1926, Breuer designed the Wassily (1925-26) and the Cesca (1928), and Mies presented his at the 1927 Weissenhof. The places cited are approximate.
What it led to
- modern interior furniture in chrome steel and leather or fabric
- Bauhaus and New Objectivity design
- industrial tubular chairs for offices and schools