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Marcel Breuer Early set of three nesting tables, designed 1936, produced circa 1936 image 1
Marcel Breuer Early set of three nesting tables, designed 1936, produced circa 1936 image 2
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Marcel Breuer
Early set of three nesting tables, designed 1936, produced circa 1936

Amended
3 October 2023, 14:00 BST
London, New Bond Street

£3,000 - £5,000

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Marcel Breuer

Early set of three nesting tables, designed 1936, produced circa 1936
Laminated birch plywood.
Largest: 37.5 x 61 x 46.5 cm
Manufactured by Venesta, Estonia for Isokon Furniture Company Ltd., London, United Kingdom.

Footnotes

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, 135-36
James Peto and Donna Loveday, eds., Modern Britain: 1929-1939, exh. cat., Design Museum, London, 1999, p. 94

Saleroom notices

Please note the following lot is a later post-war production and executed in beech, not birch as stated in the catalogue.

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