First known as the B32 and later renamed after Breuer’s daughter, the Cesca Chair is renowned for its innovative cantilevered frame made from tubular steel, which revolutionised furniture construction and inspired generations of designers. With a seat that appeared to defy gravity, it earned worldwide acclaim.
Knoll has reissued this timeless masterpiece with a fully upholstered seat and back for superior comfort, covered in Knoll Velvet or your own choice from a wide range of premium fabrics and leathers. This ‘Relax’ version comes with a polished chrome or ultra-matte powder-coated frame in exclusive Bauhaus colours: Dark Red, Onyx or White. For enduring authenticity, the Knoll Studio logo and Breuer’s signature are stamped into the base of every Cesca chair.
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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.
