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Marcel Breuer
Early nesting table, designed 1936, produced circa 1936

28 – 29 April 2022, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

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Marcel Breuer

Early nesting table, designed 1936, produced circa 1936
Laminated birch plywood.
37.5 x 61 x 45.5 cm
Manufactured by Venesta, Estonia for Isokon Furniture Company Ltd., London, United Kingdom. Underside impressed MADE IN/ESTONIA.

Footnotes

Provenance
Private collection, Scotland
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Literature
Christopher Wilk, Marcel Breuer Furniture and Interiors, exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1981, pp. 134, 145
Jack Pritchard, View from a Long Chair: the memoirs of Jack Pritchard, London, 1984, p. 114
Magdalena Droste, Manfred Ludewig and Bauhaus Archiv, Marcel Breuer Design, Berlin, 1994, pp. 132, 135-136
James Peto and Donna Loveday, eds., Modern Britain: 1929-1939, exh. cat., Design Museum, London, 1999, p. 94
Charlotte and Peter Fiell, eds., Decorative Art - 1930s & 1940s, Cologne, 2000, p. 384
Alastair Grieve, For Ease For Ever, London, 2004, pp. 28, 31, 34, 39

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