Set of Cesca Chairs in chrome-plated steel, crane and bent wood, designed by Marcel Breuer for Thonet
Dimensions: 80.6 cm x 45.7 cm x 20.5 cm; seat height 45.7 cm
Cane, chrome-plated steel, wood
Set of two chairs.
The Cesca Chair has a rare, almost innocuous, simplicity to its design — linearity balanced by subtle curves; wicker caning punctuated by a wooden frame; and a cantilevered form that seems to float in thin air. Coincidentally, the story of Cesca — a chair known for being just about everywhere — is one of radical design thinking.
Although Marcel Breuer created the Cesca Chair shortly after leaving the Bauhaus in 1928, it is inherently tied to the material innovation and design principles he formed at the German design school. In adherence to the institution’s rationalist ideals, Breuer sought a material suitable for mass production that could also render an artful furniture form.
Estimate: R8,600 - R10,600.