Beautifully crafted using the then revolutionary practice of bending tubular steel into a cantilever-shaped seat, the Cesca Stool is presented here in a beautifully upholstered edition carried in high-quality Spinneybeck Volo leather. Offered in a diverse range of colours and two different heights, the Cesca stool suits any number of scenarios, with its air of timeless cool at once both simple but technically brilliant. Forming part of the Cesca range of chairs and stools from Knoll, the Cesca Stool is a piece fully deserving of its iconic reputation.
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.