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His 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.
The 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. Despite popular belief, the chair was not designed specifically for the non-objective painter Wassily Kandinsky, who was on the Bauhaus faculty at the same ...
Mar 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 still in production.
The 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.
Sep 8, 2023 · The Wassily chair, Marcel Breuer's masterpiece, a revolutionary design object. 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. When the Bauhaus architects approached ...
This chair was conceived during Breuer’s first years at the Bauhaus school in Weimar, and the remarkable design marks the first time he used a cantilevered frame. Its articulated and highly abstract sculptural composition, particularly the intersecting horizontal and vertical planes, attests to the profound influence of the Dutch movement De ...
At the Bauhaus he designed the Wassily Chair and the Cesca Chair, which The New York Times have called some of the most important chairs of the 20th century. Breuer extended the sculpture vocabulary he had developed in the carpentry shop at the Bauhaus into a personal architecture that made him one of the world's most popular architects at the ...
Artist: Marcel Breuer (American (born Hungary), Pécs 1902–1981 New York) Manufacturer: Gebrüder Thonet GmbH. Date: 1928–29. Medium: Tubular steel, wood, and canvas. Dimensions: 32 1/4 × 24 1/2 × 31 1/2 in. (81.9 × 62.2 × 80 cm) Classification: Furniture-Wood
Object type. Wassily chair, armchair. Materials and techniques. Stainless Steel. Leather. Brief description. 'Wassily' chair, designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925, made by Gavina, Milan in 1964. Physical description. Armchair with a stainless steel frame and seat, and back and armrests of black leather.
Model B3 Chair – Marcel Breuer. This chair – one of the first to be made of tubular steel – is regarded by many as the most important piece of furniture of the 20th century. Known as the Club Chair and later as the Wassily, the B3 was designed by the Hungarian-born Marcel Breuer.
