The Wassily Chair Marcel Breuer 1925-26
7366 cm x 7938 cm x 6858 cm Date Acquired 1996 Credit Collection SFMOMA Gift of Michael and Gabrielle Boyd Permanent URL.
The wassily chair marcel breuer 1925-26. Inspired by the frame of a bicycle a product he greatly admired for its functional design Breuer saw tubular steel as a way of building a more transparent chair. Black and White Living Room with Wassily Chair. Eighteen-year old Breuer began his studies at Bauhaus in the city of Weimar Germany in 1920.
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. The Wassily Chair was originally known as the Model B3 Chair but was later marketed as the Wassily Chair after a story about Breuers friend and colleague at Bauhaus artist Wassily Kandinsky. 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.
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. The design of the chair is most interesting in that it is a symmetrical abstraction of wafer thin geometric planes that appears to be suspended in space. Eighteen-year old Breuer began his studies at Bauhaus in the city of Weimar Germany in 1920.
Wassily Chair 1925 Marcel Breuer sitting on Model B3 Wassily Chair 1925-26. It later moved to Dessau and then Berlin. The Wassily Chair Marcel Breur 1925-26.
The famous Wassily Chair by Marcel Breuer is precisely one of these the first ever chair to feature a bent-steel frame. X 31 14 in. After first producing the Model B3 Chair prototype Kandinsky was so enthralled with the chair that Breuer decided to produce another for Wassily Kandinsky himself.
Marcel Breuer 1926 On Model B3 Wassily Chair Originally the Wassily Chair was designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925 while he was an apprentice at the Bauhaus in Dessau. Wassily Chair - Gold Item Share This Marcel Breuer 1925. The design inspiration was to create a piece of furniture from lightweight nickel plated bent tubular steel and mass-produced as easily as the bicycle of the time.