Lot Details
Lot 166
Marcel Breuer Plywood Isokon Long Chair
For Isokon Furniture Company, London, 1935-36
Unmarked. Height 28 3/4 inches, width 24 inches, length 54 inches.
Similar examples can be found in the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, Museum of Modern Art, New York, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum, New York, and the Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York.
Provenance:
Dorotheum, Vienna, Twice Yearly: Important Design, May 6, 2003, lot 95.
Other chairs of this model sold at Sotheby's, London, Bauhaus Defining a Century, October 6, 2017, lot 21, and Christie's, London, Design, October 18, 2017, lot 360.
Marcel Breuer's Long Chair was an early example of how new materials and technologies would soon reshape classic furniture shapes creating the home of the future. The simple and elegant silhouette of the Long Chair would be echoed by many of the great designers of the post-war world including Charles and Ray Eames, Alvar Aalto and Eero Saarinen. This chair originally cost £6 and was too costly to be a commercial success at the time but has since become an icon of twentieth century design.
C A Private Collection of Important Design
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