Marcel Breuer Steel Tube Chair (1927/1928)

Bauhaus / 1920s-1930s: The design of the Bauhaus era shaped modernism in the 20th century. The artists trained at and influenced by the Bauhaus created a completely new formal language in architecture and design based on the principle of reduced objectivity. Function was the decisive factor in furniture design. According to the guiding principle "form follows function", the utility and purpose of the furniture was placed in the foreground and combined with industrial manufacturing processes. This resulted above all in famous designs for tubular steel furniture, for example by Marcel Breuer, Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier. The tubular steel chair without back legs - also known as the cantilever chair - is exemplary of the creative impact of the Bauhaus in the field of furniture design. It created a new type of chair that became a modern design classic.