The Wassily Chair Marcel Breuer 1925-26

Despite popular belief the chair was not designed for the non-objective painter Wassily Kandinsky who was concurrently on the Bauhaus faculty.

The wassily chair marcel breuer 1925-26. The Wassily Chair also known as the Model B3 chair was designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925-26 while he was the head of the cabinet-making workshop at the Bauhaus in Dessau Germany. While it was first created in 1926 it marked the beginning of a new era in. 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.

A black leather Wassily chair first designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925 perches beside a high-gloss black tulip table on a plush area rug. 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. X 31 14 in.

An amalgam of white leather and steel tubing the original was a chair ahead of its time. It only became known as the Wassily chair much later when it was was re-released by Italian manufacturer Gavina. Black and White Living Room with Wassily Chair.

Inspired by the frame of a bicycle a product he greatly admired for its functional design Breuer saw tubular steel as a way of building a more transparent chair. Eighteen-year old Breuer began his studies at Bauhaus in the city of Weimar Germany in 1920. The Wassily Chair was originally known as the Model B3 Chair but was later marketed as the Wassily Chair after a story about Breuers friend and colleague at Bauhaus artist Wassily Kandinsky.

Wassily Chair Repro White Leather Bauhaus. 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. The design of the chair is most interesting in that it is a symmetrical abstraction of wafer thin geometric planes that appears to be suspended in space.

Wassily Chair by Marcel Breuer The Wassily chair also known as the Model B3 chair was designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925-26 This chair was revolutionary in the use of materials bent tubular steel and canvas and methods of manufacture. 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 Chair designed at the Bauhaus in 1925 by Marcel Breuer and produced today by Knoll marks the beginning of modern furniture design.