Wassily Chair

Quality

Arm chair with frame in chrome plated steel tube. Seat, back and arms in coloured saddle leather. WASSILY CHAIR MADE IN ITALY.

Iconic Design

The Wassily Chair, also known as the Model B3 chair, was designed by the head of the Bauhaus Marcel Breuer in 1925-1926. It was later named as the Wassily Chair after a story about Breuer’s friend and colleague at Bauhaus, Wassily Kandinsky.  After first producing the Model B3 Chair prototype, Kandinsky was so enthralled with the chair that Breuer decided to produce another for Wassily Kandinsky himself.  This friendship, and the later popularity of Kandinsky led the producers of the Model B3 Chair to change its name to the now famous Wassily Chair. Marcel Breuer found his inspiration for the chair in the bent form of a bicycle handlebar, available for the first time in steel due to a development in technology.  The German steel manufacturer Mannesmann had developed a process to produce seamless steel tubing, the first to allow tubes to be bent without breaking at the seam.  Breuer’s Adler bicycle featured such tubing, which inspired the designer to employ this material in furniture. In the beginning, It was produced in both a folding and a non-folding versions. In this early iteration, the straps were made of fabric, pulled taut on the reverse side with the use of springs. And re-introduced version was available in hard leather.

Dimensions (W x D x H)

77 x 74 x 67 cm

Delivery time

3-4 weeks

Designer Marcel Breuer

Breuer, Marcel, Hungarian-American architect, designer, and teacher, who helped establish the functionalist principles underlying the International style. Breuer was born in Pécs, Hungary, and studied at the Bauhaus school of design in Weimar, Germany. He practiced architecture in Berlin until the rise of the Nazi Party, fleeing to England in 1933 and then to the United States in 1937. There he helped develop the influential School of Architecture at Harvard University. During the 1950s and 1960s Breuer designed a number of prominent buildings in the United States and Europe. His buildings are generally composed of severe blocks in rough, unfinished stone or concrete and wood.