Visitor Chair in Gray Leather by Marcel Breuer, 1970s

About This Piece

Vintage Design

Orginal Matteo Grassi visitor chair in gray leather 1970s gray Leather Model Visitor Desk by Mart Stam & Marcel Breuer for Matteo Grassi, 1970s Bauhaus chair designed by Mart Stam for Matteo Grassi in the 1970s. Original gray and chrome leather seats. Model: MG5 Visito chair Material: gray leather chrome tubular metal black Seat height 45 Condition: Very good. Signs of wear related to age and use. Some scratches. chrome excellent. Dimensions Height: 30.63 inches (77.81 cm) Width: 23.25 inches (59.06 cm) Depth: 22.25 inches (56.52 cm) style Mid-century modern (of the period) materials and techniques chrome place of origin Italy Period 1970-1979 manufacturing date 1979 color gray. Condition Good Age and use-related signs of wear. Small losses. Good original condition.

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Creator	Marcel Breuer
Design Period	1970 to 1979
Production Period	Unknown
Style	Vintage, Bauhaus
Detailed Condition	Good — This vintage/antique item may have some wear such as scratches and other signs of ageing.
Product Code	IQR-1959553
Materials	Leather, Metal
Color	Black
Width	24 cm 23.3 cm
Depth	23 cm 22.3 cm
Height	45 cm 45 cm
Weight Range	Standard — Between 40kg and 80kg

Shipping & Delivery

Ships from	Germany
Returns	Returns accepted within fourteen days of delivery, except for Made-to-order items

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About the Creator

Marcel Breuer

Born and raised in Pecs, Hungary, famed modernist architect-designer Marcel Breuer earned a scholarship to study painting and sculpture at Vienna Academy of Fine Art in 1920, but quickly dropped out and applied to the Bauhaus school in Weimar, Germany. After completing his preliminary courses there, he trained at the Bauhaus furniture workshop between 1921 and 1924. He then went on to run the furniture workshop at the new Bauhuas in Dessau, where he created what is cited as the first tubular steel armchair (1925-1926), presented in 1927 as the Type B3 Steel Club Chair (and later renamed the Wassily after Bauhaus teacher Wassily Kandinsky).

After a brief spell in Switzerland Breuer joined former Bauhaus director Walter Gropius in London in 1935. As Breuer’s career progressed, he began to focus more on architectural projects than design. In addition to his tubular steel furniture and plywood pieces for the Isokon company, he was recognized for residences, shop interiors, and multiple competition entries.

In 1937, Breuer and Gropius moved to the US, both teaching for a time at Harvard and briefly partnering in an architectural practice. Together, they designed the Pennsylvania Pavilion for the 1939 New York World’s Fair in addition to multiple private dwellings. Their partnership dissolved in 1941, but the two remained friends. In 1946, Breuer left Harvard and opened an office in New York. Over the course of the rest of his career, Breuer designed over seventy private houses and multiple university and office buildings. Notably, in 1948, the Museum of Modern Art in New York organized a touring exhibition of his work, and the following year, commissioned him to design a house in its garden; both events significantly boosted Breuer's career. In 1953, he designed UNESCO’s headquarters in Paris with Pier Luigi Nervi and Bernard Zehrfulss, and, in 1963, he designed the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.

Breuer died in New York in 1981.