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StatistikChaise Lounge
This chaise lounge is an important and highly significant piece designed by Marcel Breuer during his influential period in England (1935–1937). His work for the London-based design and architectural firm Isokon is the most recognizable of this period, with its bent plywood, free-form elements influenced by the designs of Swedish architect Alvar Aalto. But this chaise, designed for the 1936 Seven Architects Exhibition for Heal & Sons Department Store, proved to be more indicative and prototypical of Breuer’s later American work, which used plywood cutout forms. In this way Breuer continued his exploration of spatial form, moving from his earlier outlined forms to the more realized paneled shapes that would later influence the work of many American designers, most notably Frank Lloyd Wright.
marcel lajos breuer (1902 – 1981)
Marcel Breuer (1902-1981) was a pioneering Hungarian-American modernist architect & furniture designer. Known for iconic tubular steel chairs like the Wassily, and Brutalist architecture, he defined 20th-century design with functionalism & sustainabi
High Museum of Art (Atlanta, USA)
High Museum of Art er et fyrtårn i Atlantas kunstverden med en imponerende samling af amerikansk dekorativ kunst fra det 19. århundrede og banebrydende samtidskunst bag en smuk hvid facade og innovativt tagsystem.
Om dette kunstværk
- Titel: Chaise Lounge
- Kunstner: marcel lajos breuer
- Format: Landscape
- Ophavsretlig status: Ophavsretligt beskyttet
- Hvor det kan ses: High Museum of Art
- Bevægelse: Mid-Century Modern
- Korpuskontekst: wright's forms , aalto's curves
- Nøgleord: 1936 heal & sons chair , organic furniture forms , art deco furniture style
- Farveintensitet: Balanced
- Oplevet lysstyrke: bright