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The organizers of the Salon des Artistes Décorateurs invited the Deutsche Werkbund to participate in their 1930 Paris exhibition. The Werkbund chose Gropius to lead the exhibition team, which also included former Bauhaus instructors Breuer, László Moholy-Nagy and Herbert Bayer. The installation consisted of mass-produced design objects displayed within a series of model rooms. Breuer contributed three rooms originally intended for his 1929 project for an apartment hotel. The rooms included a study and rooms for a woman and a man, separated by a bathroom and kitchenette. Visitors viewed the rooms from an elevated bridge in the exhibition space or walked around the exteriors. Breuer used his own tubular-steel furniture designs manufactured by Thonet, as did Gropius in his section of the exhibition. Breuer also designed a few custom pieces including a cantilevered tubular-steel desk for the man's room and a semicircular glass table hung from a free-standing wall. Exhibitions such as these were instrumental in popularizing tubular-steel furniture, although Breuer had turned to other materials by this time.