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Starting at $5,464. Shop The Marcel Breuer Collection, including the Wassily Chair, Laccio Tables and Cesca Chair.
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 ...
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Marcel Breuer. Club chair (model B3) 1927–1928. On view. MoMA, Floor 5, 519 The Alfred H. Barr, Jr. Galleries. The model for this chair is the traditional overstuffed club chair, but all that remains is its mere outline, an elegant composition traced in gleaming steel.
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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.
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 ...
Armchair. Marcel Breuer American, born Hungary. 1922. On view at The Met Fifth Avenue in Gallery 909. 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 ...
Marcel Breuer. Chair (model B33). 1927–1928. Gebrüder Thonet A.G., Germany. Chrome-plated tubular steel with steel-thread seat and back. 32 15/16 x 19 5/16 x 25 3/8" (83.7 x 49 x 64.5 cm). Gift of Manfred Ludewig. 1326.2009.
