Folding chair 'B 4', c. 1928 – Marcel Breuer | Lot 27

Lot: 27

Marcel Breuer
Folding chair 'B 4', c. 1928

H. 75 x 77 x 53 cm; tube Ø 2 cm. Made by Standard-Mobel, Berlin or Thonet, Frankenberg. Tubular metal, painted red, plugged and screwed, grey/beige 'Eisengarn', hexagonal screws.

Provenance: Originally from House Pistor, Graz, designed by Austrian architect Herbert Eichholzer, a former collaborator of Le Corbusier in Paris. The current owner purchased it at an estate sale. Lacquer with repairs.

>> Literature

Hammer Price: 54,000 €

145A - 100 Years of Bauhaus
25. June 2019 at 5:00 PM CEST

Literature:

Alexander von Vegesack, Deutsche Stahlrohrmobel, Munich 1986, p. 33, p. 36; Magdalena Droste, Manfred Ludewig, Marcel Breuer Design, Cologne 1992, p. 65; Helmut Erfurth, Junkers Das Bauhaus und die Moderne, Dessau 2010, p. 130; Adolf Schneck, Der Stuhl, Stuttgart 1930, p. 50.

The items can be viewed and inspected prior to the auction; they all are, without exception, used and of a certain age. Their actual state of preservation is - corresponding to their age and their used state - not being referred to expressly in the catalogue and on the internet, but is agreed specification (cf. Conditions of sale, art. 4). The auction house cannot be held liable for malfunction or nonfunction of electrical devices. Condition reports can be forwarded on demand. They serve as a better survey on the item's condition based on the auctioneer's assessment.
Read our Terms & Conditions.

Marcel BreuerFolding chair 'B 4', c. 1928

Auctions

Marcel Breuer
Folding chair 'B 4', c. 1928