Timeline

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

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