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Tubular metal furniture began in 1909 with an Italian manufacturing company by the name of Dalmine. They began making seamless steel tubes for commercial use. The modernist designers of the time were followers of the Bauhaus teachings and focused on “Design for the masses”.

In 1914 a company in Japan also began manufacturing seamless steel tubes, and in 1954 two companies opened for business in Latin America. The metal furniture trend even spread to America where companies such as Chicago and Grand Rapids Co. of Michigan began producing tubular metal furniture.Tubular metal spread through out the world quickly during the first half of the 20th century.

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