Mart Stam
Mart Stam
Mart Stam (1899–1986) was a Dutch architect, urban planner, and furniture designer. Stam was extraordinarily well-connected, and his career intersects with important moments in the history of 20th-century European architecture, including chair design at the Bauhaus, the Weissenhoff Seidlung in Stuttgart and postwar reconstruction in Germany. Stam is most famous for devising a tubular steel cantilever chair in the early 1920s and spawning an entire genre of chair design, which was taken up and expanded by Marcel Breuer and Mies van der Rohe.