K40 COFFEE TABLE

Marcel Breuer

YEAR: 1927
DIMENSIONS W x D x H (cm): 60 x 80 x 60 cm
FINISH: Crystal Glass Clear or Smoked Glass
FRAME: Nickel plated steel tube
WARRANTY: 2 Year
LEAD TIME: Approx. 16-18 weeks

A round, crystal glass plate resting on a curved steel tube, Marcel Breuer designed this striking table in 1927/28 for the Berlin theatre director Erwin Piscator. At the time the K40 was a groundbreaking piece of furniture. Today the K40 is a manifestation of all the principles Bauhaus represents; a triumph of bending, floating and simplifying expressed in tubular steel modernism.

Frame available in stainless steel or a range of powder coated finishes. Top available in smoked glass.

Accredited by the Bauhaus Archives in Berlin.

MARCEL BREUER

1902 - 1981

In 1925, Marcel Breuer became head of the furniture workshop in Dessau.

It was here that he devised a radical idea for chairs using tubular steel, which sparked the beginning of modern furniture design. One of the most important pieces of furniture of the 20th century, the B3 Chair (or Club Chair and the Wassily) was one of the first to be made of tubular steel.

The metal frame was inspired by a bicycle frame and the use of tubular steel required the minimum use of material to achieve maximum strength. The cantilever chair meant freedom from rigid throne-like sitting and the dawn of the modern era of furniture design can be traced to Bauhaus designers today.

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