Tea Cart (model B54)

Identifier: 225.1981.a-b
Title: Tea Cart (model B54)
Description: The Marcel Breuer Tea Cart (model B54) first appeared in the form of a prototype in a photograph dated 1928. The Marcel Breuer cart was first shown in public in 1930 at the Salon des Artiste Decorateurs where Breuer designed an "apartment for a boardinghouse/hotel" as a representative of Deutscher Werkbund. The cart made another public appearance in 1932 when Marcel Breuer designed a house for the Berlin-Bau Austellung known as the "House for Sportsmen."
Artist: Marcel Breuer
Date: 1928
Subject: Furniture
Medium: titanium steel
Dimensions: 30 1/2 x 34 5/8 x 21 1/2" (77.5 x 88 x 54.6 cm)
Rights: Estée and Joseph Lauder Design Fund
Source: MoMA Collection. Item: 225.1981.a-b