An iconic design created by one of the Bauhaus movement’s leading lights, the Cesca Chair once reshaped the very foundations of modern furniture. Its sleek, cantilevered profile - engineered from tubular steel - ushered in a new era of structural innovation and captivated design communities across the globe with its gravity-defying elegance.
Knoll proudly presents the ‘Relax’ edition with armrests, now fully upholstered for enhanced comfort. Choose from the sumptuous Knoll Velvet or your preferred material from a range of luxurious textiles and leathers. To enrich contemporary interiors, the chair is finished in either chrome or an ultra-matte powder-coated frame in signature Bauhaus hues: Dark Red, Onyx, and White.
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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.
