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Bauhaus - Marcel Breuer 

I never really found Bauhaus interesting and I surely did not think that I would have been choosing a designer from this movement to be on my visual chart. Though through the research I have made Marcel was quite an interesting person and also was the movement. Marcel Breuer became one of the most greatest architects and furniture designer in the 20th century. He used new techniques and materials. Marcel was a student at Bauhaus an Art and Design school were famous and smart designers taught. While completing his studies of carpentry apprenticeship he designed his first chair which he named the African chair and Slatted chair. Marcel became head of the carpentry workshop were he was called 'young master'.

The Wassily chair is one of his most famous pieces. He was inspired by his bicycles metal tube handles, he formed the chairs frame using nickelled tubular pipes and chrome plated them and the seat was either made from canvas, leather or any other type of fabric.

Most of his designs were made from tubular pipes. He made tables which hid underneath each other nicely. Years later he started designing furniture with flat bars and it was more popular in the 1970s. Breuer left Germany because of the Nazis he was worried because he was Jew so he emigrated to London. While in London he started experimenting with other materials such as wood and came up with different designs for chairs. He was influenced from Alvar Aalto's plywood furniture which was exhibited in Britain. Later on Breuer went to America and designed with Walter Gropius which they both designed houses together including Gropius's own house.