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Shop the classic Wassily Chair, Cesca Chair, Laccio Tables and more from the Breuer Collection by Knoll. Inspired by bicycle construction, these modern designs are among the most influential and important of the modern movement.
IBM La Gaude. ( full list) Design. Wassily Chair, Cesca Chair. Signature. Marcel Lajos Breuer ( / ˈbrɔɪ.ər / BROY-ər; 21 May 1902 – 1 July 1981) was a Hungarian-German modernist architect and furniture designer. He moved to the United States in 1937 and became a naturalized American citizen in 1944. [1]
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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 ...
Overview. Inscriptions and Markings. Provenance. Exhibition History. References. Title: "Wassily" Armchair. Designer: Marcel Breuer (American (born Hungary), Pécs 1902–1981 New York) Date: 1925. Medium: Chrome-plated steel, canvas upholstery. Dimensions: 30 3/4 × 30 1/4 × 26 3/4 in., 15 lb. (78.1 × 76.8 × 67.9 cm, 6.8 kg) Classification: Furniture.
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Learn about the influential design of Breuer's tubular-steel chair, inspired by his bicycle handlebars and his Bauhaus colleague Kandinsky. See the chair on display at MoMA and read its publication excerpt.
Marcel Lajos Breuer ( BROY-ər; 21 May 1902 – 1 July 1981) was a Hungarian-German modernist architect and furniture designer. He moved to the United States in 1937 and became a naturalized American citizen in 1944. At the Bauhaus he designed the Wassily Chair and the Cesca Chair, which The New York Times have called some of the most important ...
