Stahlrohr Revolution!
Kálmán Lengyel, Marcel Breuer, Anton Lorenz und das Neue Möbel

“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company and the work of Breuer, Lengyel, and the later director Anton Lorenz are depicted here in-depth with hitherto unpublished archive material.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!”

Text kindly supplied by arnoldsche.

We at Lion&Bee were asked by the Bröhan Design Foundation design the book. In addition I created also the typeface used on the cover: Emilia Tubolare. All the used typefaces are my own design: for the headlines I took the Change and the Change Mono, the Deffke Text (aka Classica) for the main text and the Change Letter for the captions.

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Here you can see some spreads from the book.

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