The Wassily Chair by Marcel Breuer is one of the most important Bauhaus chair designs of the 20th century. Designed in 1925 as the Model B3 chair, it replaced the bulk of a traditional club chair with a clean tubular steel frame and suspended leather panels.
This Italian-made Wassily-style chair features a chrome-plated tubular steel frame with real hide leather on the seat, back, and arms. The result is a strong, architectural lounge chair with the lightness and clarity that made Bauhaus furniture so influential.
The Wassily Chair works beautifully in modern living rooms, offices, libraries, and interiors built around classic modern design. In stock in black hide leather.
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.
Made in Italy.
Dimensions: H 29 1/4" D 26 1/4" W 30 1/4; SH 16"; ArH 22 1/2"
Material: Armchair with hide leather and tubular steel frame. Chrome-plated. Back, seat, and armrests in real hide leather. An extremely solid piece with welded and polished caps. In stock in black hide leather.
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