This configuration of the iconic Cesca chair features the armless configuration of the seat upholstered in premium Spinneybeck Volo leather, and is available in a range of five distinctive colour-ways. Breuer inspired a revolution in the furniture industry upon his introduction of the Cesca, which saw tubular steel used in place of more traditional materials, with the added strength of the steel and innovative cantilever shape of the chair freeing up the imagination in genuinely new ways. Part of the Cesca family of chairs and stools from Knoll.
A protege of Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius, Hungarian-born modernist architect and furniture designer Marcel Breuer embodied many of the School's distinctive concepts and was one of the School's most famous students. Breuer returned to the Bauhaus to teach carpentry from 1925 to 1928 and during this time designed his functional, simple and distinctly modern tubular-steel furniture collection. His attention drifted towards architecture, and after practising privately, he worked as a professor at Harvard's School of Design under Gropius. Breuer was also honoured as the first architect to be the sole artist of an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Marcel Breuer's most famous designs include the Wassily lounge chair, named after his Bauhaus room mate Wassily Kandinsky, and the Cesca after his daughter Francesca.