Cesca chair
Illustration — Side view of a Cesca chair The Cesca chair is a chair design created in 1928 by the Hungarian-American architect and designer Marcel Breuer. It consists of a tubular steel frame and a rattan seat and backing, and was the first such tubular-steel-frame, caned-seat chair to be mass-produced. The design was named as a tribute to Breuer's adopted daughter Francesca (nicknamed Cesca).
Also recorded as B32
Cesca chair
Holger.Ellgaard · CC BY-SA 3.0
- Field
- cantilever chair
- Period
- 1928
VALÉORINE Encyclopedia
VALÉORINE documentary reading
Documentary summary
Illustration — Side view of a Cesca chair The Cesca chair is a chair design created in 1928 by the Hungarian-American architect and designer Marcel Breuer. It consists of a tubular steel frame and a rattan seat and backing, and was the first such tubular-steel-frame, caned-seat chair to be mass-produced. The design was named as a tribute to Breuer's adopted daughter Francesca (nicknamed Cesca).
Admitted source layer · organised and presented by VALÉORINE
Note VALÉORINE
No house-authored Note is published until its assertions and sources pass the VALÉORINE evidence contract. The documentary article remains available in full while that enrichment is being consolidated.
Documentary enrichment in progress · no unsupported statement published
Reference Check
Propose documentary evidence for Cesca chair. A contribution is never written directly as fact: identity, source, rights and evidence gates still decide.
Sign in to contribute
World of VALÉORINE
Documentary connections
Only confirmed graph relationships appear here. Images are shown only when their identity and reuse rights both pass the documentary gate.
Documentary evidence
Evidence Panel
not yet certified
- Identity
- resolved
- Independent source families
- 0
- Admitted assertions
- 0
- Open conflicts
- 0
Authority files
wikidata · Q48998097 · wikipedia · Cesca chair
In this article
Overview
Overview
The design was purchased in 1968 by Knoll Associates. Since then, approximately 250,000 of the chairs have been purchased. The three official manufacturers of the chair were Thonet (from 1927), Gavina (1950s), and Knoll (1960s - present.). An original Cesca from 1928 is stored in the Museum of Modern Art in Manhattan. Cara McCarty, a curator at the museum, referred to the chair as being "among the 10 most important chairs of the 20th century".
Chronology
Dated record
Chronology
The full dated record · 2 entries
1928
Cesca chair first recorded.
1928
Cesca chair is recorded from 1928.
Primary material
Documents and archives
reference work
- “Cesca chair”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
Reputable secondary · Wikipedia
authority record
- Wikidata, structured authority record Q48998097: Cesca chair
Unverified · Wikidata
Literature
Scholarly footprint
A count of publications is evidence of attention, not of standing, and is given here only as a measure.
Citations
References
Each reference names the institution holding it, so a reader may go to the document itself.
reference work
Partially resolvedauthority record
Unverified
The Encyclopedia exists whether or not anything is for sale. Corrections are recorded rather than overwritten, and every version of this record is kept. Published 14 August 2026.
Elsewhere in Furniture
924 published records in this field, each with its sources named.
- cellaretTerminology
- cellaretteTerminology
- Centralized mail deliveryTerminology
- Cervara PolyptychTerminology
- chairTerminology
- Chair of ElijahTerminology
- Chair of Saint PeterTerminology
- Chair of St AugustineTerminology
Best supported in this field
For owners
Own an object connected with Cesca chair?
A specialist will read what you send and tell you what the house can establish, what it cannot, and whether the object is suited to sale. There is no charge and no obligation. The object stays with you throughout; nothing is shipped to us unless it is arranged in writing beforehand.