The Cantilever Chair. Mart Stam 1926, created the experimental prototype of a chair without back legs from ten bent gas pipes of equal length that he connected using fittings. A wooden board served as the seat. He would use the rectangular construction principle of the so called gas pipe chair for his first Cantilever chair. Which he designed for the exhibition “Die Wohnung” at the Weibenhofsiedlung Stuttgart. Both models are considered lost today.
Marcel Breuer designed the B33 for Thonet, a tubular steel cantilever chair with an Eisengarn seat. Deviating from Mart Stam’s straightforward design, Breuer decided to bend the backrest slightly. In a lawsuit between Thonet and Desta, Stam was ultimately ruled to be the inventor of the cantilever chair in 1932.
Info sourced from Vitra Design Museum.
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