Mart Stam, inventor of the cantilever chair

Mart Stam (1899-1986) is one of the major inventors of modern design. A Dutch architect, he participated alongside Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius and Mies van der Rohe in the founding Weissenhof exhibition in Stuttgart in 1927, and presented the first cantilever chair in history: the S33, a seat in welded steel tube, with no rear legs, held in cantilever. An idea so powerful that it would be immediately reused by Mies (MR10 model) then Marcel Breuer (Cesca). A famous trial in Berlin would establish in 1932 Stam's authorship.

The S33 chair in tubular steel remains Mart Stam's signature piece, reissued by Thonet. A modernist vintage chair to find for those wanting a historic signature of the Dutch Bauhaus, at the base of all cantilever furniture.