22/10/2026
What do a bike and a chair have in common? More than you might think 🪑🚴
In the 1920s, Marcel Breuer was riding his Adler bicycle and couldn’t stop looking at the handlebar frame. Made of bent tubular steel, it was light but tough, and he wondered if he could use the same material to make furniture.
The Cesca chair was the outcome, and the rest, as they say, is history.
It’s made from the same premise as the bike frame - bent into a cantilever with no back legs, then topped with wood and cane.
It started out with the far less catchy name of B32, but was later named after Breuer’s adopted daughter, Francesca.
That was in 1928, and in 1968, Knoll Inc. purchased the design. Since then, people worldwide have purchased around 250,000 chairs, each with Breuer’s signature stamped into the base.
There’s a reason this beauty has been named one of the ten most important chairs of the 20th century 😍