Author
Montserrat
Files & Media
Status
Type
Document
1920
- Attended Bauhaus Weimar (was barely a year old)
1924
- Graduated Bauhaus Weimar
1925
- Returned to Bauhaus as the head of the carpentry workshop until 1928
- Adler Bicycle
- Was fascinated by his bicycle tubing
- Approached Adler the bicycle company to make furniture with tubing
- Went straight to the manufacturer Mannesmann
- Very First tubular steel chair
- Breuer's first design
- Designed Wassily Chair (B3 Chair)
1927
- Founded Standard Mobel
- Manufactured the Wassily Chair
- Wasn't called Wassily until 1962
- Table (B10)
- Nesting Tables (B9)
1928
- Cesca Chair (B32)
- Left Bauhaus
1931
- Thonet, major tubular steel furniture producer
1932-1933
- Aluminum Chair
1936
- Fled the Nazi’s and went to London
- Worked for Isokon Furniture Co. (One of the earliest plywood manufacturers)
- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUQ2mzzHIKM
- Stacking tables
- Lounge chair
1937
- Went to Harvard Graduate School of Design as a chairman with Gropius
- Frank House
1941
- Broke ties with Gropius
1945
- Geller House (Butterfly Roof)
1946
- Moves to NYC
1948
- Ariston Club