B4 Chair

Marcel Breuer was an outstanding student of the carpentary workshop in the Bauhaus
educational establishment which remains perhaps the most potent symbol in 20th Cen-
tuary design.Bauhaus objects are characterized by their simple forms,clean lines and
inexpensive materials with a common concern for truth to materials and structure.Its
ideas,methologies and styles being virtually synonymous with Modernism,which consisted of a series of movements and individuals who
strove to break down barriers between aesthetics,techniques and society so that an appropriate design of the highest visual and practical
quality could be produced for the mass of the people.The early 20thCentuary was a period of rapid social and historical change and this
was reflected in the arts of the time.A mood of austerity and practical simplicity followed the days of WW1.People welcomed the machine
age and designers reassessed their products in the light of the post-war mood and looked upon the new materia...