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99/9/1 Reclining chair, 'Long Chair', wood, designed by Marcel Breuer, England, 1935, made by Isokon Furniture Company, England, 1935-1936. Click to enlarge.
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'Long Chair' by Marcel Breuer

The 'Long chair', with its bent frame of laminated birch wood supporting the shaped timber seat and back, was developed soon after Marcel Breuer settled in England in 1935. The chair ranks as one of the highlights of inter-war modernism, its use of moulded plywood anticipating the direction of post-WWII furniture design and manufacture. With its variants, and along with the plywood chairs of the renowned Finnish architect, Alvar Aalto, from the 1930s, the 'Long chair' is one of the earliest …

Summary

Object No.

99/9/1

Object Statement

Reclining chair, 'Long Chair', wood, designed by Marcel Breuer, England, 1935, made by Isokon Furniture Company, England, 1935-1936

Physical Description

Reclining chair, 'Long Chair', plywood, designed by Marcel Breuer, made by Isokon Furniture Company, England, 1935-1936

Reclining chair of laminated (birch) ply, the angled back-rest and shaped seat of one continuous piece of moulded plywood supported by a bent plywood frame consisting of three separate elements; shaped armrests and uprights in one continuous piece connected to a horizontal base framework that curves back to join the cantilevered leg-rest of the chair. The third supporting element is a simple stretcher connecting the uprights of the arm elements beneath the seat.

Marks

Stamped on underside of base support 'XV'.

Short URL

https://ma.as/167934

Dimensions

Height

730 mm

Width

620 mm

Source

Credit Line

Purchased 1999

Acquisition Date

18 February 1999

Cite this Object

Harvard

'Long Chair' by Marcel Breuer 2022, Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, accessed 29 March 2023, <https://ma.as/167934>

Wikipedia

{{cite web |url=https://ma.as/167934 |title='Long Chair' by Marcel Breuer |author=Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences |access-date=29 March 2023 |publisher=Museum of Applied Arts & Sciences, Australia}}

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