Marcel Breuer, England, 1939
Set of three nesting tables in polychromed plywood. Designed by Marcel Breuer and made by Isokon Furniture Company, Estonia/England.
By the time Marcel Breuer arrived in London in 1935 to join the Isokon community of designers, he was no stranger to the nesting table form. In the late 1920s, he had designed a tubular steel version for Thonet, which was quite successful. With Isokon, Breuer's iconic designs in plywood were produced in Estonia, and then shipped to London, where the tiny in-house workshop made their final adjustments. Each of the tables is cut and bent from a single sheet of plywood. The present examples are from the very first years of production prior to Germany invading Poland in September 1939. Other examples of the complete set of three are in the collections of MoMA and the Victoria & Albert Museum.
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