B3 Wassily, Breuer, 1925 – Vitra Miniature Vitra Design Museum
Vitra
Miniature of the Miniature Collection, Vitra Design
Museum. Marcel Breuer was one of the most important designers
of the early modern age. His biography is closely linked to the history
of the Bauhaus, founded by Walter Gropius in 1919. The club chair B3,
known today as »Wassily« was also created in connection with this
renowned institution. lt is the first piece of seating furniture in the
history of design to be made from seamless, precision-drawn tubular
steel. lts transparency and visible structure are expressions of the
stringent aesthetic approach that prevailed in architecture and design
following World War I. Marcel Breuer replaced the massive upholstered corpus of the
traditional club chair with a skeletonlike construction made out of bent
steel tubing, thereby overcoming the physical weightiness of
conventional seating. He exploited the elasticity of the material,
complementing it with tautly stretched fabric strips of reinforced
canvas for the seat and back. The B3 did not acquire the name »Wassily«
until the beginning of the sixties, when the Italian furniture producer
Dino Gavina purchased the manufacturing rights: Marcel Breuer had
designed the armchair for the house of the painter Wassily Kandinsky,
who taught at the Bauhaus from 1922 until 1933.
Material:
nickel-plated tubular steel, black leather.
Miniature, scale 1:6. 116 x 123 x 127mm.
Manufacturers of the full-scale (1:1) model - since 1968 The Knoll Group, New York.
Miniature, scale 1:6. 116 x 123 x 127mm.
Manufacturers of the full-scale (1:1) model - since 1968 The Knoll Group, New York.
Product.Nr.: 20204101
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