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1. See Cesca chair.2. See Wassily chair.[after M. L. BREUER, their designer]
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Breuer chair
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Breuer chair — n. [after BREUER Marcel (Lajos), its designer] a chair with a frame of continuous chrome tubing, no back legs, and cane seat and back … English World dictionary
Breuer chair — /ˈbrɔɪə tʃɛə/ (say broyuh chair) noun a chair with a frame made from polished bent tubular steel, with a seat and backrest in leather, canvas, cane, etc. {designed by Marcel Lajos Breuer, 1902–81, Hungarian architect and furniture designer} …
Breuer chair — 1. See Cesca chair. 2. See Wassily chair. [after M. L. BREUER, their designer] … Useful english dictionary
Breuer, Marcel — (1902 1981) furniture designer; best known for his Breuer Chair. A native of Pecs, Hungary, he came to Weimar in 1920 to study design at the Bauhaus.* When the school moved to Dessau in 1925, he went along as the master in charge of the… … Historical dictionary of Weimar Republik
BREUER, MARCEL — (1902–1981), architecture and furniture designer. Breuer was born in Pécs, a city in southwest Hungary. In 1920, after high school, he won a scholarship to the Vienna Academy of Fine Art. Disliking the Academy, he went to work for an architect… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
chair — chairless, adj. /chair/, n. 1. a seat, esp. for one person, usually having four legs for support and a rest for the back and often having rests for the arms. 2. something that serves as a chair or supports like a chair: The two men clasped hands… … Universalium
Breuer, Marcel — ▪ Hungarian architect in full Marcel Lajos Breuer born May 21, 1902, Pécs, Hung. died July 1, 1981, New York City architect and designer, one of the most influential exponents of the International Style; he was concerned with applying new … Universalium
BREUER, Marcel — (1902 1981) Born in Hungary, Marcel Breuer first trained at the famous Bauhaus School of Design in Germany and worked with the German modernist architect Walter Gropius. Known as one of the founders of modernism in both architecture and… … Historical Dictionary of Architecture
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Breuer, Marcel (Lajos) — born May 21, 1902, Pécs, Hung. died July 1, 1981, New York, N.Y., U.S. Hungarian U.S. architect and furniture designer. He studied and then taught at the Bauhaus (1920–28), where in 1925 he invented the famous tubular steel chair. He moved to… … Universalium
