Chair (model B33) / Marcel Breuer / Manufactured by Mücke-Melder (Thonet license)
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Record Details
- Accession Number
- 2012/1.286
- Title
- Chair (model B33)
- Artist
- Marcel Breuer
- Artist Nationality
- American
- Artist Life Dates
- born Hungary, 1902-1981
- Medium and Support
- chrome-plated tubular steel and canvas
- Object Creation Date
- designed 1927-1928; produced circa 1935
- Object Creation Place
- Europe (continent)
- Czechoslovakia (general region)
- Fry?tát
- Creation Place 1
- Europe (continent)
- Creation Place 2
- Czechoslovakia (general region)
- Creation Place 3
- Fry?tát
- Credit Line
- Bequest of Herbert W. and Susan L. Johe
- Style/Group/Movement
- Bauhaus Modernism
- Period
- Interwar period
- Dimensions
- 81.28 cm x 48.9 cm x 60.96 cm (32 in. x 19 1/4 in. x 24 in.)
- Century
- 20th century
- Primary Object Classification
- Furniture and Furniture Accessories
- Primary Object Type
- chair
- Secondary Object Classification
- Decorative Arts
- Physical Description
- Cantilever chair frame formed by a continuous line of thin steel tubing (connected under the seat with an additional piece of tubular steel), with separate lengths of black canvas wrapped around it at the seat and back.
- Secondary Keywords
- arts and related disciplines
- arts-related disciplines
- descriptors
- disciplines
- european
- european styles and periods
- furnishings
- furnishings by form or function
- furniture
- furniture by form or function
- humanities
- inorganic material
- materials
- materials by composition
- metal and metal products
- modern european styles and movements
- objects we use
- people and culture
- styles and periods
- styles and periods by region
- Rights
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Technical Details
- Collection
- University of Michigan Museum of Art
- Image Size
- 2592 x 3888
- File Size
- 1 MB
- Record
- 2012/1.286
- Link to this Item
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https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2012-sl-1.286/2012_1.286.jpg
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"Chair (model B33); Marcel Breuer; Manufactured by Mücke-Melder (Thonet license)." In the digital collection University of Michigan Museum of Art. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/musart/x-2012-sl-1.286/2012_1.286.jpg. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 13, 2024.