A cantilever chair is a chair with no back legs, relying for support on the properties of the material from which it is made. This famous form was designed by Mart Stam in 1926, and remains an important example of 20th century design.
Other important designers of cantilever chairs were Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Marcel Breuer in the Bauhaus.
Alvar Aalto designed several wooden cantilever chairs, made from laminated birch.
Famous quotes containing the word chair:
“I knew this guy that broke my sister’s nose when I was a kid and I always thought that’s why he became a priest. He tied her up in a chair and it was like, you know, I thought he was like overcompensating.”
—Blake Edwards (b. 1922)