Wassily Chair

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The Wassily Chair is a pioneering modernist tubular steel and leather armchair designed in the 1920s that became an icon of Bauhaus furniture design.

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Wassily Chair canonical 4
Wassily Chair by Marcel Breuer 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Bauhaus furniture
armchair
industrial design icon
modernist furniture
alternativeName Cesca Chair
surface form: Model B3 chair
armSupport strapped leather
armType open-frame arms
backSupport strapped leather
backType sling backrest
category iconic chair design
colorOptions black leather
brown leather
white leather
commercialStatus still in production
countryOfOrigin Germany
culturalStatus design classic
designedAt Bauhaus Dessau building
surface form: Bauhaus Dessau
designer Marcel Breuer
Marcel Breuer
surface form: Marcel Lajos Breuer
designPrinciple exposed structure
reduction to essential forms
use of industrial materials
designYear 1925
1926
era 1920s design
frameType bent tubular steel frame
influenced 20th-century chair design
modern tubular steel furniture
inspiredBy bicycle handlebars
legType continuous steel loop legs
manufacturer Gebrüder Thonet
Knoll
material leather
tubular steel
movement Bauhaus movement
International Style
namedAfter Wassily Kandinsky
notableFor association with Bauhaus
minimalist aesthetic
pioneering use of tubular steel in furniture
originalUse residential seating
studio furniture
period interwar period
seatSupport strapped leather
seatType sling seat
style Bauhaus
Modernism

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Marcel Breuer notableFor Wassily Chair
Marcel Breuer designed Wassily Chair
Bauhaus school of design notableWork Wassily Chair
this entity surface form: Wassily Chair by Marcel Breuer
Breuer notableWork Wassily Chair
subject surface form: Marcel Breuer
Wassily notableBearer Wassily Chair