Long Chair

Designer: Marcel Breuer, American (born Hungary), 1902–1981
Maker: Isokon Furniture Company, London, England, founded 1929
Date: c.1936
Material: Molded laminated birch and birch plywood
made in: London, Greater London, England, Europe
Classification: Furniture
Collection: Decorative Arts and Design
Current Location: On View, the Alexandria Room
Dimensions: 30 1/4 × 24 × 52 1/2 in. (76.8 × 61 × 133.4 cm)
Credit Line: Richard Brumbaugh Trust in memory of Richard Irving Brumbaugh and Grace Lischer Brumbaugh
Rights: Public Domain
Object Number: 31:2016

NOTES

With its undulating seat and supports made of molded plywood, this lounge chair is innovative for its construction and ergonomic design. The chair offered the “scientific relaxation of every part of the body.” Architect Marcel Breuer is best known for developing chromium-plated steel tubing as a support for chairs and tables while he was an instructor at the Bauhaus school of architecture and design in Germany during the 1920s.

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