Marcel Breuer, Aluminium Lounge Chair with Zebra Print Upholstery, 1933.
Breuer began his career as a furniture designer. He excelled in his carpentry studies at the Bauhaus, eventually heading the workshop. His early experiments in wood owed much to the De Stijl movement, in particular the furniture of Gerrit Rietveld. The first real breakthrough occurred in 1925, when, inspired by the frame of a new bicycle, he began to design chairs in tubular steel. Breuer eventually designed a whole line of tubular steel furniture, marketing the pieces through his own company, Standard Möbel. Licensing agreements with furniture manufacturers such as Thonet soon followed. Breuer began working in aluminum in 1932 eventually winning an international competition in Paris.
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