High-quality office chair with tubular steel armrests

The S 64 NDR office chair by Marcel Breuer for Thonet is one of the most versatile pieces of tubular steel furniture. It blends harmoniously into various design concepts: from purist modern furnishings to a diverse mix of different eras and styles. The S 64 NDR office chair with armrests is the best-known tubular steel classic.

Its success is based on the successful combination of tradition and innovation: the many years of Thonet expertise in the manufacture of bentwood furniture with the characteristic Viennese weave meets the revolutionary use of tubular steel. While the solid wood seat and backrest with wickerwork embody tradition, the frame represents the present and the future. This versatility makes it one of the best-selling office chairs to date.

Marcel Breuer

Marcel Breuer was born in Pécs, Hungary, in 1902. After dropping out of art school, he studied at the State Bauhaus in Weimar from 1920 to 1924. From 1925 to 1928, he was head of the carpentry workshop at the Bauhaus, which had moved to Dessau in the meantime. During this time, he was strongly influenced by Constructivism and De Stijl and developed some pioneering tubular steel furniture designs.

In 1928, Breuer moved to Berlin, where he worked mainly in the field of interior design. From 1931, he undertook a series of trips before working on several aluminum furniture designs in Switzerland from 1932. In 1935, Marcel Breuer moved to London and worked there as an architect.

In 1937, he was appointed professor of architecture at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and later founded an architecture firm together with Walter Gropius. In 1946, Breuer founded his own studio in New York and realized numerous projects in Europe and the USA.

He is regarded as one of the most important architects and designers of modernism and died in New York on 1. July 1981.

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