A fully-fledged masterpiece of modernist design, the Cesca Stool was first produced in 1928 but remains a piece at home in the contemporary living space. Merging traditional craftsmanship with industrial production, the Cesca family saw tubular steel furniture become an international sensation. The inherent strength of tubular steel allowed for an unorthodox yet hugely effective cantilevered frame that has inspired generations of furniture designers in the years that have followed. Uncomplicated yet highly sophisticated, the Cesca Stool is ideal for use in all manner of settings, including homes, offices and hospitality venues, and comes complete with a Knoll Studio stamp asserting its authenticity.
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.