Vintage Breuer Cesca Chair

This is an outstanding example of the Breuer Cesca chair, Gavina Model B, Made in Italy and purchased from Knoll International NY. This has hand woven cane seat and back, set in black lacquered wood frame balanced on a tubular bent and polished steel frame. This chair has wear from age and use with light damage to the cane on the edges of the seat (see photos) but is in very good condition for its age and even has an original label under the seat. All the details point to this as an original - curved seat front, smoothly finished steel caps, no bends or kinks in the steel tubing, and hand caning.
18" wide x 22" deep x 31" H
Info found online:
Marcel Breuer created the Cesca Chair shortly after leaving the Bauhaus in 1928. Breuer was a multitalented artist who regarded furniture as a necessary component of one’s environment, deriving meaning from its application in a spatial whole. Consequently, in 1937, he followed his mentor — Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius — to Cambridge, Massachusetts to teach and practice architecture and design at Harvard University. In 1946, he moved to New York City to devote even more time to the trade, establishing his own practice and designing notable Modern and Brutalist works.
In the early-1960s, the Modern Italian furniture manufacturer Gavina Group acquired the rights to the design. The company’s founder and owner, Dino Gavina, decided to rename the chair “the Cesca” after Breuer’s daughter, Francesca. And in 1968, Knoll acquired the Gavina Group and brought the designs of Breuer, as well as the many Italian Modernists represented by the company, to the forefront of popular taste.
Knoll introduced the Cesca Chair in 1968 following its acquisition of Gavina Group — an Italian furniture manufacturer that represented legendary architect Marcel Breuer's designs. Informed by the principles of the Bauhaus and the designer's revolutionary innovations in material, the simple, yet outstanding, design resonates just as much as it did over ninety years ago.

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Furniture, Chairs

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Private Residence

WIlbraham, MA 01095

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Sunday, 2/15, 11:00 am to 2:00 pm

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