Bauhaus Model B3 Wassily Chair by Marcel Breuer, 1920s

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Bauhaus Model B3 Wassily Chair By Marcel Breuer - Tubular steel cantilever design - Thick Black leather seat and backrest … Read more Bauhaus Model B3 Wassily Chair By Marcel Breuer - Tubular steel cantilever design - Thick Black leather seat and backrest - Black leather armrests - Originally designed in 1925 By Marcel Breuer - Produced by Knoll - German ~ 1970s - 80cm wide x 67cm deep x 71cm tall - 41cm seat height The Wassily chair/ B3 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 Wasilly Kandinsky , who was on the Bauhaus faculty at the same time. Kandinsky had admired the completed design, and Breuer fabricated a duplicate for Kandinsky's personal quarters. The chair became known as "Wassily" decades later when it was reissued by Italian manufacturer Gavina, which had discovered the anecdotal Kandinsky connection during its research on the chair's origins. Condition Report The frame is in good condition with very little ageing to the chrome, the leather has been treated with balm to keep it supple See less