In the case of Hungarian-born designer Marcel Breuer, his Wassily chair began as a quiet design experiment that went on to achieve cult status for nearly a century. A student of the legendary ...

Marcel Breuer, a Hungarian furniture maker and architect ... it came to be known as the Wassily Chair because the painter Wassily Kandinsky, also on the Bauhaus faculty, admired and owned one.

There are chairs, and then there are iconic chairs. More than a place to simply sit, certain designs are highly covetable pieces: think Eames chairs, Togo sofas and Wassily chairs. Named after the ...

They are radical in their weightlessness. The archetypal Wassily Chair – designed by Marcel Breuer between 1925-1926 – informed the bended tube structure of the special edition frame. Keplinger says: ...

You can purchase the chair from Design Within Reach at $3,600. There are payment plans available through Affirm, starting at $101 per month. What are the upholstery or customization options?

Breuer first trained in Germany as a Bauhaus carpenter where he designed the still-popular Wassily chair in the 1920s, before coming to the United States just before World War II, according to the ...

Breuer first trained in Germany as a Bauhaus carpenter, where he designed the still-popular Wassily chair in the 1920s, before coming to the United States just before World War II, according to ...

The Wassily chair and a table that Breuer made many versions of using concrete blocks. Here, he added a rough slate top.Credit...Steven Smith for The New York Times The Cape Cod Modern House Trust ...

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