B3 Wassily Chair Marcel Breuer
The Wassily Chair designed at the Bauhaus in 1925 by Marcel Breuer and produced today by Knoll marks the beginning of modern furniture design.
B3 wassily chair marcel breuer. Despite popular belief the chair was not designed for the non-objective painter Wassily Kandinsky who was concurrently on the Bauhaus faculty. Und hier sieht man es beispielsweise in Walter Gropius Wohnzimmer. After first producing the Model B3 Chair prototype Kandinsky was so enthralled with the chair that Breuer decided to produce another for Wassily.
The Wassily Chair also known as the Model B3 chair was designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925-1926 while he was the head of the cabinet-making workshop at the Bauhaus in Dessau Germany. The model for this chair is the traditional overstuffed club chair but all that remains is its mere outline an elegant composition traced in gleaming steel. However de facto everything was other way round.
One of the first furniture designs to make use of steel tubing the Wassily Chairs elaborately shaped frame is combined with a leather upholstery that forms the seat and backrest. The Wassily B3 original edition from Knoll by Marcel Breuer. Marcel Breuer 1926 On Model B3 Wassily Chair Originally the Wassily Chair was designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925 while he was an apprentice at the Bauhaus in Dessau.
Reworked by Forma in epoxy matte black paint and Cordura fabric. Fabulous Wassily arm-chair designed by Marcel Breuer Knoll. Marcel Breuer Club chair model B3 19271928.
Pair of Wassily chairs dating back to Gavinas production recently restored with new leather upholstery. In terms of materials and joinery much of the model is made in the same way as the actual chair to stay true to its heritage and construction. Inspired by the frame of a bicycle and influenced by the constructivist theories of the De Stjil movement Marcel Breuer was still an apprentice at the Bauhaus when he reduced the classic club chair to its elemental lines and planes forever changing the course of furniture design.
Wassily Chair ΒΌ Scale Model is a photorealistic model of Marcel Breuers iconic B3 or Wassily Chair designed in 1925. The club chair B3 known today as Wassily was also created in connection with this renowned institution. Pair of Wassily Chairs by Marcel Breuer for Gavina.