Famous Marcel Breuer Wassily Chair
- Chrome frame, leather seat, back, armrests, etc.
- Immediate design statement in any home.
- Comfortable as well.
- From 1980s, but probably a replica
- Fair condition, good price
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DESIGN NOTES:
Marcel
Breuer's Wassily Chair (1925) is one of the most famous products of
the Bauhaus School. It is a club armchair with all the stuffing taken
out, leaving a behind a skeletal framework and stretched seat, back,
and arms.
Marcel
Breuer is considered one of the fathers of Modernism. During his
career, he was an architect, teacher and furniture designer. Breuer
is famous for a number of furniture designs, though perhaps no chair
design is more famous than his Wassily Chair. Marcel Breuer designed
the No. B3 chair, commonly known as the Wassily Chair, in 1925 for
Wassily Kandinsky's residence at the Dessau Bauhaus. Eventually, the
chair took the name "Wassily" from its intended recipient.
The Wassily Chair was later produced in collaboration with Karl
Koerner, who was the head smith at the Junkerswerken in Dessau. Over
the next four years, the chair went through a transformation while
Marcel Breuer was employed by Standard-Mobel. The Wassily Chair was
again redesigned for Thonet, after his resignation from
Standard-Mobel, and would remain the permanent design for Marcel
Breuer's revolutionary chair.
Approx
dimensions: H 29 1/4" D 26 1/4" W 30 1/4; SH 16";
ArH 22 1/2"