Marcel Breuer | "Wassily" Armchair - The Metropolitan Museum of Art
WEBHis first experimental tubular steel piece was the club style armchair about which he said, "It is my most extreme work both in its outward appearance and in the use of materials; it is the least artistic, the most logical, the least 'cosy' and the most mechanical." It became known as the "Wassily" chair because of Kandinsky's admiration for it.
A Brief History of the Wassily Chair, an Icon of Modernism Whose ...
WEBMar 21, 2022 · Designed by Marcel Breuer, the Wassily chair, or Club Chair model B3, is a creation from the Bauhaus school that came to the States in the 1950s. Now an icon of mid-century modernism, the Wassily chair still looks as contemporary today and is …
Wassily Chair Review: I Tried It | Architectural Digest
WEBSep 18, 2023 · Model tested: Wassily Chair. The details: This is a chair most people have seen before they realize the story behind it—call it iconic. Designed by Marcel Breuer, the chair was inspired by a ...
Wassily Chair - Wikipedia
WEBThe 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.
Wassily Chair - Knoll
WEBThe iconic Wassily Chair is constructed of leather or canvas straps stretched across a tubular steel frame—originally inspired by the bends in a bicycle. It was the first chair of its kind in 1925, and it remains a celebrated symbol of modernism today.
How the Wassily Chair Changed it All - Knoll
WEBWith tensile strength and visual lightness, the Wassily Chair—followed shortly after by the Cesca Chair, Laccio Tables and MB Lounge—defied conventional notions around what furniture should be.
The Wassily chair, Marcel Breuer's masterpiece, a revolutionary …
WEBSep 8, 2023 · Few objects have revolutionized the history of design as Marcel Breuer's celebrated Wassily chair. It is the masterpiece of the young Bauhaus architect: created in 1925, Wassily is still a relevant and contemporary object today.
Design: how the classic Wassily chair was inspired by a bicycle
WEBJun 21, 2013 · The Wassily chair, one of several designs closely associated with the Bauhaus movement, was inspired by a bicycle. Its designer, Marcel Breuer (1902-1981), graduated from the Bauhaus carpentry...
Marcel Breuer. Club chair (model B3). 1927–1928 | MoMA
WEBThe chair was dubbed the “Wassily” after the painter Vasily (or Wassily) Kandinsky, Breuer’s friend and fellow Bauhaus instructor, who had praised the design when it was first produced. This example was given to MoMA by another Bauhaus colleague, Herbert Bayer, and was featured in the Museum’s landmark exhibition Machine Art in 1934.
Marcel Breuer Architecture, Bio, Ideas | TheArtStory
WEBMade of leather and cantilevered steel, the Wassily chair has become one of the world's most enduring and iconic pieces of furniture. Breuer designed the chair at the age of the 23, while still an apprentice at the famed Bauhaus in Weimar, Germany.