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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 time.
Breuer designed his Long Chair as well as experimenting with bent and formed plywood, inspired by designs by Finnish architect Alvar Aalto. [8] Between 1935 and 1937, he worked in practice with the English Modernist F. R. S. Yorke, with whom he designed a number of houses. After a brief time as the Isokon's head of design in 1937, he emigrated ...
The Wassily Chair, also known as the Model B3 chair, was designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925–26 while he was the head of the cabinet-making workshop at the Bauhaus, in Dessau, Germany. This piece is particularly influential because it introduces a simple, yet elegant and light-weight industrial material to be used in structures within the ...
In 1925, Hungarian American designer Marcel Breuer introduced the first chair made from tubular steel, the Wassily. Three years later, he introduced the Cesca, a simplified design that marries ...
Wassily; Wassily Chair, 1920s furniture, named after Wassily Kandinsky (Vasily Kandinsky) Vasilyev, surname; Vasyl, (Ukrainian: Василь), Ukrainian masculine given name; Vasil (Bulgarian and Macedonian: Васил, Georgian: ვასილ), Bulgarian, Macedonian and Georgian masculine given name; Vasilisa (name), the feminine form of the ...
Wassily Wassilyevich Kandinsky [a] (16 December [O.S. 4 December] 1866 – 13 December 1944) was a Russian painter and art theorist. Kandinsky is generally credited as one of the pioneers of abstraction in western art .
The design of the chair may have been influenced by Marcel Breuer's metal Wassily Chair, though Aalto was generally negative towards metal furniture. [3] The degree of bending of the wood tested the technical limits of that time. The chair is part of the permanent collections at the MoMA in New York City and the Finnish Design Museum.
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