This armchair was part of a range of furniture designed for a north London flat commissioned by Mrs Dora Ventris in advanced modernist style from the Hungarian-born, former Bauhaus teacher Marcel Breuer. The flat was located in a tall building designed by architect Berthold Lubetkin, and his firm Tecton, known as ‘Highpoint’. Built-in and free-standing furniture was designed by Breuer to organize the space, including a pair of these chairs and a matching sofa. They were made in Bristol from large, cut-out sheets of plywood for the frame and moulded plywood armrests. Their organic, curvilinear geometry represented a departure from the severe rectilinear geometry of Breuer’s earlier work on the Continent. The cut-out elements were simple and relatively inexpensive to cut, also representing a departure from Breuer moulded plywood furniture.