Marcel Breuer's Short Chair: Design Masterpiece Explained by V&A Curator

A video published by the Victoria & Albert Museum in London features Christopher Wilk, curator of the furniture, textiles, and fashion department, explaining the origins of the Short Chair, a plywood chair designed by Marcel Breuer in 1936. Breuer (1908–1981), a Hungarian-born former student and teacher at the Bauhaus, pioneered furniture made with tubular steel structures, a style widely imitated. He moved to London in late 1935 on the advice of former Bauhaus director Walter Gropius and began working with support from Jack Pritchard, founder of Isokon, a company dedicated to modern buildings and furniture. The Short Chair was created to associate design furniture with comfort, combining elegance and practicality.