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It’s Paris Design Week!
Paris Design Week is back, and to celebrate, Art Explora Academy has put together a special playlist. Dive into the world of great designers and discover iconic and inspiring objects. 🛋️

This two-legged chair has been famous for almost 100 years. Cesca (also known as a B32), the cantilevered cane and chrome chair is all over the place: in trendy homes, on movies and tv sets, even tattooed on people’s bodies. But Instagram’s favorite chair is not exactly new.

It was designed nearly 100 years ago by an architect named Marcel Breuer, while he was a student at the Bauhaus, the famed German art school. This somewhat unassuming two-legged chair is the realization of a manifestos-worth of utopian ideals about design and functionality. So maybe it’s no surprise it has somehow remained in fashion for decades: It’s a design icon. And just a really, really nice looking chair.

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On the agenda
video - 6:00
Why everyone has this chair
By: Vox Media
video - 2:10
Modernism: Design in a Nutshell
By: OpenLearn from the Open University
video - 2:20
American Industrial Design: Design in a Nutshell
By: OpenLearn from the Open University
video - 2:24
Postmodernism: Design in a Nutshell
By: OpenLearn from the Open University
video - 9:05
Art Deco: Why Is It The Most Popular Architectural Style? 🗽
By: Curious Muse
video - 7:30
Bauhaus: Revolutionary Design Movement Explained
By: Curious Muse