Disenchantment,Enchantment and Re-enchanting:The Multiple Displacements of Marcel Breuer's Tubular Steel Chair
This paper examines how the Marcel Breuer designed steel tube chair existed as a tool for designing a reformed society,a symbol of the Nazi empire's prosperity and progress,and a tasteful piece of cultural capital in the 1920s,'30s,'60s,and in the present day,in a variety of cultural and social contexts and ideologies.Reveals how almost opposite meanings appear in the same object in the chain of meanings associated with the tubular steel chair,exploring the trajectory of its temporality and materiality,and the multiple displacements that it forges and is shaped by.The article proposes that it is the fact that these pieces of furniture are the result of rationalised calculations based on functionalism,stripped of the human,historical and psychological depths of traditional objects,and presented as a simple and naked object,that makes the infusion of different meanings possible.This defies the author's original intention but achieves its status as a modern classic.
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