B-19 desk/table | Wright

Estimated value: 5000-7000 US$

Auction:
Modernists

Sales date: 2003-09-14

Location:
Chicago

Lot number: 351

Design

Marcel Breuer
Year 1928
Manufacturer Thonet

Architonic id

4102327

Tubular steel, glass, rubber
45.5"w x 32"d x 27.5"h
The transparent glass surface reveals a tubular stell frame--a structural concept that Breuer pioneered with inspiration from bicycle tube frames.
Exhibited:
Sitting on the Edge, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1998.
Literature:
"Sitting on the Edge," Antonelli, Betsky, Boyd, and Garner, Rizzoli, 1998, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, plate 23.