Description
Wassily armchair was designed by Marcel Breuer in honour of Wassily Kandinsky. Initially the prototype was featured with a tube of 20 mm diameter. After a series of changes Breuer came to use a chromed steel tube without joints for the realization of the structure. Back, seat and armrest are in hide-leather or cavallino leather available in two finishes and in several colours. Apart from being a milestone in the history of Interior Design, Wassily armchair is a product hand-crafted by a workshop specialized in metal and leather manufacturing.
Measurements
- cm 79 x d.70 x h.72
Seat height: cm 45
Seat and Back Material
- Russia hide-leather
- full grain hide-leather
- cavallino leather: white/black, white/coffee, white/black/coffee
Colour (only for Hide-leather Seat and Back)
Choose the desired colour from the configurator menu only for seat and back finishes in Russia hide-leather or full grain hide-leather.
Structure Finish
- chromed steel without joints
Hide-leather Features
Russia Hide-leather: thickness of approximately 1,8/2 mm. This hide leather is artificially worked, in order to result uniform, by removing all the little imperfections you can find in a full grain hide leather.
Full Grain Hide-leather: thickness of approximately 2,8/3mm. The surface is not submitted to any kind of treatment that could modify its characteristics, so you can see pores, little scratches and other natural imperfections.
Additional Information
Italy
1
15 Kg
0.46 m³
Designer
Marcel Breuer (Pécs, 1902 – New York, 1981)
Marcel Breuer has been one of the greatest architects of the Century, and that was already pretty clear during the 20s when, at 32, he was studying at Bauhaus carpentry. Hartmann, a master artisan, recalls that Breuer with courage and perseverance questioned the sacred rules of Bauhaus and found very personal solutions to them. During the years at Bauhaus he designed many furniture for a prototype house and became co-founder of a cooperative for architecture. From 1925 to 1928 he supervised the carpentry class. His first chairs in steel tube belong to that period of time as well as his first furniture pieces: he furnished the houses of Bauhaus masters and Erwin Piscator apartment in Berlin.
In 1937 Breuer moved to the United States where he lived until his death. In Cambridge (Massachusetts) he managed a studio together with Walter Gropius and for nine years he had been working as a professor of architecture at Harvard Univeristy. Breuer produced a series of great design projects: Unesco building in Paris, "De Bijenkorf" mall in Rotterdam, Usa embassy in Hague, Whitney Museum of American Art in New York and Sport Park in Flushing Meadows. After the 30s he stopped designing furniture and he started with tapestry. The great quality of Breuer architectures is given by the combination of great beauty and functionality.
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