The cantilever chair represents one of the most significant results of avant-garde design in the 1920's. These steel tube chairs stem from the Bauhaus movement and the German Werkbund, and still challenge architects and designers today to experiment anew with their form and material. The exhibition covers more than eighty years of innovative suspension design with chairs by Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe right up to Ron Arad and Ross Lovegrove.

Curator Sebastian Hackenschmidt, MAK Furniture and Woodwork Collection.

"[O]ne might say that the person who will feel comfortable on this chair is someone for whom, even in a state of rest, the constant, slight tension of modern life, the feeling of elasticity and momentum has become an existential prerequisite, an indispensable component of his vital consciousness."
Albert Sigrist (= Alexander Schwab), 1930

Catalogue CANTILEVER CHAIR. Architectural Manifesto and Material Experiment, edited by Peter Noever, with texts by Hannes Böhringer, Elke Krystufek, Reiner Zettl and Sebastian Hackenschmidt, German/English, 84 pages, MAK 2006, EUR 21 MAK Design Shop