Mart Stam Marcel Breuer S33 1 One Chair Chrome Tan Brown Cognac Leather Cantilever Bauhaus Mid Century Dining Chairs Desk Side Bedroom
Chalfont St Giles, United Kingdom
£795 per item
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Item details
Height
88.9 cm
Width
50.8 cm
Depth
53.98 cm
Wear conditions
Good
Wear conditions
Excellent
Shows little to no signs of wear and tear.
Good
May show slight traces of use in keeping with age. Most vintage and antique items fit into this condition.
Average
Likely to show signs of some light scratching and ageing but still remains in a fair condition.
Apparent Wear and Tear
Visible signs of previous use including scratches, chips or stains.
Please refer to condition report, images or make a seller enquiry for additional information.
Description
A fine, handsome and unique S33. Kudo leather sprung seat and back. Dated to the 1990s shipped in from South Africa recently but originally from Italy.
Kudu leather comes from the Greater Kudu, an animal that roams the woodlands of East & South Africa. Due to the habitat and its natural predators such as leopards, lions, African wild dogs, and hyenas, the Kudu will often graze sharp bushes that leave natural scars and scratches on the skin.
The Kudu is considered to have persisted in greater numbers than many other species of large antelope, due to its secretiveness and its ability to survive in undisturbed pockets in otherwise cultivated areas.
In South Africa and Namibia, they are highly prized for their meat and are culled regularly for export. Each animal is culled under license by local authorities in order to control their numbers and to generate income which contributes to the local economies and helps to finance the conservation operations of the game reserves.
Mart Stam
Mart Stam (1899–1986), born in the Dutch town of Purmerend, trained as a joiner and drawing teacher. He first worked in the Netherlands, later in Berlin and Switzerland in various architecture offices, including with Max Taut and Hans Poelzig. In 1924, he founded the Swiss avant-garde magazine “ABC” together with architect Hans Schmidt.
Stam felt an obligation to build and design rationally. Simplicity was not an end in itself for him. The visionary architectural studies he published made him internationally famous. In 1925, he began experimenting with gas pipes, from which he composed an innovative chair without back legs – the basic idea of the cantilever chair, which Thonet has been producing under various model numbers to this day – was born. In 1926, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe invited him to participate in the Werkbund exhibition “The Dwelling” in Stuttgart, where Stam created a row house with three units. He furnished two of them himself, and Marcel Breuer furnished the third. It was there that Mart Stam presented his cantilever chair without back legs – the prototype for countless cantilever chairs – for the first time. In 1928, he moved to Frankfurt am Main, where he tested the typification of cheap housing. In the winter semester 1928/29 he was a guest lecturer for urbanism at the Bauhaus Dessau. In 1930, he went to the Soviet Union to plan cities together with Ernst May (“Brigade May”) and his wife Lotte Stam-Beese. After refusing to plan a city in an especially inhospitable environment in 1934, he had to leave the USSR. In 1939 he took over the direction of the Institute for Applied Arts Education in Amsterdam. After 1945, he was unable to continue his former successes. In 1948, he moved to the east of Germany and became director of the Dresden Art Academy, and then of the Berlin-Weißensee Academy of Art starting in 1950. During the Cold War, the inventor of the cantilever chair without back legs found himself trapped between a rock and a hard place: In the GDR, Stam was considered a formalist with close ties to the Bauhaus, while in the Netherlands, where he returned to in 1953, he was viewed as a leftist reformer. From 1977 onward he withdrew to Switzerland. Stam was awarded the artistic copyright for the cantilever chair.
Condition report:
All good -NO nasties.
Leather fully nourished and revitalised.
Hardly used.
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Estimated delivery time
Less than one week
Free collection available
Yes
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- Selling at Vinterior since 2021
- 98 sales
- Ships from Chalfont St Giles, United Kingdom
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Last updated: 24th March 2025
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