Living room, cont.
With a few exceptions, the furnishings in the living room date from the Bauhaus at Dessau. Marcel Breuer designed the tubular steel frame tables said to have been inspired by his bicycle’s handlebars. Breuer also designed the bent-wood lounge chair on the west wall in 1936 during his stay in England and, according to Ati, the chair was her mother’s favorite sitting place. The Saarinen “Womb Chair” was given to Gropius by friends on his seventieth birthday in 1953. The two small bentwood stools in front of the fireplace, prized possessions of the Gropiuses, were designed by Japanese craftsman Sori Yanagi and bought in Toyko when the Gropiuses visited in 1954.
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