Marcel Breuer’s Short Chair

Marcel Breuer was one of the most important furniture designers of the 20th century. Here Christopher Wilk, Keeper of Furniture, Textiles and Fashion at the V&A, explores the history of the Short Chair - one of his best-known designs.
Breuer emigrated to London from Germany in 1935 and the Short Chair is part of a group of modernist plywood furniture that he designed for the Isokon Furniture Company in the late 1930s.
Produced as part of the V&A exhibition Plywood: Material of the Modern World (15 July - 12 November 2017) www.vam.ac.uk/...
Sponsored by MADE.COM. Supported by the American Friends of the V&A
Find out more about plywood with our fascinating exhibition book, Plywood: A Material Story
www.vam.ac.uk/...

[@judithbrassington9443]

An educational video with the history of a beautiful and functional chair. I didn't kow that plywood was so strong!

[@1780scottie]

I loved the Plywood exhibition.

[@9hundred67]

such a beautiful chair

[@Bellaross01]

Let’s give credit to Alvar Aalto who came up with the bend wood concept, he design the “31” arm chair inspired by marcel Breuer (1931)

[@hugh7208]

whos watching this for DET