The tubular steel furniture by Marcel Breuer (1902-1981) is considered an outstanding design
object of the twentieth century. Yet widely unknown is the development of the first prototype
to its early series production. Breuer's fellow compatriot Kálmán Lengyel (1900-1945) to whom
this comprehensive publication is dedicated played a significant role in this. In 1927 they
founded the company Standard Möbel together in order to organize the series production and
distribution of the tubular steel furniture. The development of the company and the work of
Breuer Lengyel and the later director Anton Lorenz are depicted here in-depth with hitherto
unpublished archive material. As a prominent furniture designer and architect Lengyel also
founded his own furniture brand Ka-Le-Möbel worked as an interior designer in Paris and
constructed buildings in Berlin Szeged and Budapest. This publication expands our knowledge
about the early models and highlights the life and work of the protagonists of the tubular
steel revolution!
