A Marcel Breuer Table Light

A brass table lamp designed by Marcel Bruer for the International Exposition of modern industrial and decorative arts in Paris in 1925.

This example made under licence during the 1980s.

Excellent condition, rewired with three core fabric covered cable.

Height 20.25in (51.5cm)

Width 10.5in (26.5cm).

Depth 6in (15cm).

Marcel Breuer 1902-1981.

A titan of the modern movement and protégé of Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer is equally celebrated for his achievements in architecture and furniture. Breuer was a student and subsequently a master carpenter at the Bauhaus in the early 1920s. His entire body of work, both architecture and furniture, embodies the driving Bauhaus objective to reconcile art and industry. While at the Bauhaus, Breuer revolutionized the modern interior with his tubular-steel furniture and lighting collection inspired by tubular bicycle construction and fabricated using the techniques of local plumbers and blacksmiths. His first designs, including the Wassily chair, remain among the most identifiable icons of the modern furniture movement.