Marcel Breuer - Design New York Tuesday, December 17, 2013 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Tajan, Paris, “Design,” May 24, 2005, lot 59

  • Literature

    Christopher Wilk, Marcel Breuer Furniture and Interiors, exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1981, p. 48, fig. 37, p. 185 for the armchair
    Alexander von Vegesack, et. al, eds., Thonet Tubular Steel Furniture, First Complete Catalogue Collection of German and French Models 1930-1931, Weil Am Rhein, 1989, n.p.
    Bauhaus Furniture A Legend Reviewed, exh. cat., Bauhaus Archiv Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, 2002, pp. 244, 246
    Alexander von Vegesack and Matthias Remmele, Marcel Breuer Design and Architecture, Weil am Rhein, 2003, p. 134 for the armchair

250

Early swivel chair, model no. B7

designed 1927, executed circa 1935
Chromium-plated tubular metal, stained plywood, Eisengarn.
32 1/4 x 17 3/8 x 22 5/8 in. (82 x 44 x 57.5 cm)
Manufactured by Gebrüder Thonet, Germany. Underside metal fixture cast with 543.

Estimate
$8,000 - 12,000 

Sold for $10,000

Contact Specialist
Meaghan Roddy
Head of Sale, New York
mroddy@phillips.com
+ 1 212 940 1266

Design

New York 17 December 2013 2pm