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Wassily Chair (Model B3)

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Bauhaus

Wassily Chair (Model B3)

Marcel Breuer, 1925

History

Inspired by the tubular steel of a bicycle handlebar, Breuer's B3 reduced the club chair to floating planes of leather suspended in a chrome frame. It became an emblem of Bauhaus industrial idealism and was later nicknamed after painter Wassily Kandinsky.

Movement

Bauhaus

Year / Era

1925 · 1920s

Materials

Tubular Steel, Leather

Style

Constructivist

Licensing

Editorial / Attribution

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