Cesca chair

Marcel Breuer, 1928. Made by Knoll The cantilevered side chair with a caned seat and back on one continuous loop of chromed tube is one of the most familiar dining chairs there is. Breuer designed it as the B32 shortly after leaving the Bauhaus. Its history is tangled. Legal credit for the cantilever idea went to the Dutch architect Mart Stam, and Thonet's catalogs later attributed the B32 to others. The Italian maker Gavina renamed it Cesca after Breuer's adopted daughter Francesca, and Knoll gained the rights when it bought Gavina in 1968.