Wassily Chair, the first tubular steel chair built by Breuer in 1925, is now back on the market. It was manufactured by Mannesmann tubes
Famed session timeless, a classic elegance and simplicity, the Wassily chair by Marcel Breuer, leaves no doubt, is one of the masterpieces of twentieth century design.
Also known as model B3 came as the name suggests, designed for the residence of the constructivist painter Wassily Kandinsky and colleague at the time as Breuer (1925), worked at the Bauhaus School in Dessau.
Consists of a tubular chromed steel with seat and back and arms in regenerated leather
Wassily chair was a product of the revolutionary for its time, especially for the materials precisely folded steel and cloth that characterized the first version of the session.
It is said that this session had been inspired by Breuer in his other creation, the bicycle, Adler, who inspired the decision to use steel pipes.
The first prototype in 1925, underwent a series of changes over time such as the chassis was built in 1927 in its current form consists of a continuous tube, without any addition, bending that circumscribes a cubic space.
Initially, the Wassily Chair was produced by the company founded by the same Breuer, Standard-Möbel Lengyel in 1929 was absorbed by Thonet.
The chair that has over eighty years of history and still very current, and is an elegant solution for office furniture to the house. The design rights now belong to Knoll in New York that produces and distributes today after many years after that in the 50s and 60s has become a mass product.
The leather of which is covered is available in 8 different colors. In the complexity of its design, the Wassily chair is yet simple and is a great excuse to sit back and relax.
Winner of many awards including mention: The Museum of Modern Art Award, 1968, Recognition as "Piece of Art," West Germany, 1982. The Wassily chair is now in the permanent collection at MOMA in New York.
Timeless piece of design, is perfect in a modern living room, study of a professional is always a choice of class, the sitting for a truly elegant interior.
