KNOLL armchair WASSILY by Marcel Breuer (Warm Beige - Spinneybeck leather and steel)

The Wassily armchair, 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 for the non-objective painter Wassily Kandinsky, who was concurrently on the Bauhaus faculty. However, 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 re-released by an Italian manufacturer named Gavina who had learned of the anecdotal Kandinsky connection in the course of its research on the chair's origins. This chair was revolutionary in the use of the materials (bent tubular steel and canvas) and methods of manufacturing. It is said that the handlebar of Breuer's 'Adler' bicycle inspired him to use steel tubing to build the chair, and it proved to be an appropriate material because it was available in quantity. The design (and all subsequent steel tubing furniture) was technologically feasible only because the German steel manufacturer Mannesmann had recently perfected a process for making seamless steel tubing. Previously, steel tubing had a welded seam, which would collapse when the tubing was bent. Awards: The Museum of Modern Art, New York, USA, 1968; Recognized as an "art piece", Germany, 1982

Structure: tubular in steel chromed.

Belts: standard leather

Footsies: every chair has in endowment four roller skate in transparent plastics shockproof, easily applicable to the base if necessary (for hard floors).

Note: the logo KnollStudio and the signature of Marcel Breuer are engraved on every single piece of the collection Breuer.