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Desk

Marcel Breuer, 1936

The desk is a combination of glass, wood and tubular steel, a material popular with the design avant-garde in the 1920s and 1930s. The design emphasises the structural and visual distinctions between the steel, glass and wood. This is the desk at which Michael Ventris worked as he deciphered the Linear B script.

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Title of artwork, date

Desk, 1936

Date supported

2002

Medium and material

Sycamore veneered laminated board & chrome-plated tubular steel & glass

Dimensions

75 x 233.5 x 34 cm

Grant

16068

Total cost

32265

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