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Chrome plated tubular steel and bright Eisengarn fabric Dessau/Germany, 1927; manufactured around 1930 Marcel Lajos Breuer (1902-1981) - German-American architect and designer of Hungarian-Jewish origin Thonet Mundus AG, founded in 1922 in Cieszyn Based on a design by Marcel Breuer from 1927 Manufactured by the Thonet Mundus AG around 1930 Tubular steel stool with original upholstery Model: B8 Size: 45 x 44 x 44 cm Original, not restored condition Provenance: Private collection, Switzerland Breuer is considered the inventor of the modern tubular steel furniture; the stools from the B-series sell for up to 10,000 euros in the international auction market The present tubular steel stool was designed in 1927 by Marcel Breuer, when he was a young master and head of the furniture workshop at the Bauhaus Dessau. The B8 stool was made around 1930 by the Thonet Mundus AG. The frame consists of two multiply bent and screwed steel tubes as well as a crossing tube under the seat. The stool features the original upholstery made ​​of bright Eisengarn fabric. The stool is in original, unrestored condition with some wear consistent with use and age. The steel tubes show rust stains and losses of the chrome plating. The Eisengarn fabric is slightly stained, torn at the sides and detached from the steel tubes. The dimensions of the stool are 45 x 44 x 44 cm. The stool height is 45 cm. Marcel Breuer (1902-1981) Marcel Lajos Breuer (1902-1981) was a German-American architect and designer. He ranks among the great modern masters due to his avant-garde furniture designs, developing his pioneering style at the Bauhaus school in Weimar. In 1925, he became the head of the Bauhaus Dessau furniture workshop and shaped the factual-industrial design concept. After his training at the Bauhaus school, he worked for many years in the interior furnishings department under Walter Gropius. Due to political persecution by the Nazi regime, he immigrated to the US and later joined Harvard's architecture faculty. Thonet The furniture company Thonet was established by Michael Thonet (1796-1871) and is family-owned to this day. Michael Thonet began to develop the production of furniture from mechanic to industrial manufacturing. For this purpose, he experimented with bentwood. In 1836 he acquired the Michelsmuehle a glue factory in Boppard but run into financial difficulties and had to close this establishment in 1841 and moved to Vienna with his family. There he opened an establishment of his own again in 1849 he named it "Gebrueder Thonet " He achieved his breakthrough design with the Viennese bistro chair, also known as Chair No. 14 (1859). The chair was designed at the first Thonet factory, which opened in Koritchan, Moravia in 1859. Factories later opened in various German, French, and Austrian locations. There, the company employed new working procedures to standardize manufacturing, such as division of labor and movable parts that made chairs a relatively cheap mass product. The chair turned Thonet into an internationally successful business; the company produced and sold two million different objects in 1912. It had sale locations across Europe as well as in Chicago and New York. In the 1930s, tubular steel was added as a new material and Thonet produced designs by Mart Stam, Marcel Breuer, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Even today, new designs in addition to the classics are produced in the company headquarters in Hessian Frankenberg. EN Export: "Shipping costs excl. statutory VAT and plus 2,5% (+VAT) shipping insurance"