Designed in 1922 and refined in 1924, Marcel Breuer's TI 1A armchair forms an airy mesh with its 18 wooden battens that seems to escape all gravity, where the armrests and backrests venture into a cantilever. At the time of its creation, the young Hungarian designer was just twenty years old and was still a student in the Bauhaus carpentry workshop. Although he has already produced several foundations, it is only since 1921 that a primordial influence has colored his work: De Stijl. The Dutch movement is debated in the ranks of the Weimar school up to its direction, its refined and abstract geometric forms nevertheless inspire the work of Breuer who created a cubic armchair for the Sommerfeld house a year before our model (1921). . Drawing even more deeply on the aesthetics of De Stijl, referring in particular to the emblematic Red and Blue Chair by Rietveld (1917), Breuer orders the structure of his seat like a painting by Piet Mondrian, he nevertheless distinguishes himself from it while seeking user comfort. Where Gerrit Rietveld places the user on the hard, flat surfaces of plywood, Marcel Breuer suspends him on stretched canvases, a principle that he will never stop reusing, notably on his most emblematic seat, the B3 armchair, known as “ Wassily ” (1925). Our version, the second developed by Marcel Breuer, benefits from standardized battens for the entire structure, where only the length of the boards is modified according to the chosen use, facilitating construction and lowering costs. Remaining in the family of its original owner, Vimarois Max Alfred Zschunke, this seat constitutes a fundamental milestone in Breuer's career. 

Walnut, wild cherry and fabric

96 x 57 x 57.5 cm