Marcel Breuer

Protege of Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer embodied many of the School’s distinctive concepts and was one of the School’s most famous students. He returned shortly thereafter to teach carpentry from 1925 to 1928, and during this time designed his tubular-steel furniture collection: functional, simple and distinctly modern. His attention drifted towards architecture, and after practising privately, he worked as a professor at Harvard’s School of Design under Gropius. Breuer was also honoured as the first architect to be the sole artist of an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The Wassily chair was named after his Bauhaus room mate Wassily Kandinsky, the Cesca after his daughter Francesca.