Marcel Lajos Breuer (1902 – 1981), was a Hungarian architect and furniture designer of 20th century. His works were much of International Style, where he applied new forms, used new materials and technologies in creating it. He was considered the “inventor” of tubular steel furniture. He produced numerous tubular steel furniture pieces, including the legendary Wassily chair known as the Model B3 chair, which was inspired by the design of bicycle handlebars. His other famous works include Cesca chair, a chair with no back legs, and Laccio Tables. He was also practicing architecture and has built numerous of private residential and commercial buildings.
The Long chair was designed by Marcel Breuer in experimenting with bent and formed plywood during his employment in London from 1935-36. Jack Pritchard, Breuer’s employer, was interested by the work of Alvar Aalto, and asked him to produce similar furniture. This chair is based on an aluminium lounge designed by Breuer in 1932 and put into production in 1933. Long chair has dimension of 1350 x 600 x 830mm. Three main parts of the chair are plywood frames, wool-upholstered seat, and polyurethane padding. The single-piece seat is supported by an element connecting the armrests at the back of the seat and one beneath the seat. The frames for the prototypes of the 'Long Chair' were made in a small workshop in London, while the seats were initially ordered pre-bent from the Venesta Plywood Company in Estonia, where Pritchard had worked previously.
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