Wassily Lounge Chair - designed by Marcel Breuer, 1925 - made by Knoll

Wassily lounge chair with black Spinneybeck leather belting and chrome frame.

Marcel Breuer was an apprentice at the Bauhaus when he began experimenting with tubular steel as a way of building a more transparent chair. Inspired by a new manufacturing technique to shape drop handlebars of a bicycle and influenced by the constructivist theories of the De Stjil movement, Breuer reduced the form of the classic club chair to its elemental lines and planes.

The composition of leather suspended on steel tubes was the first of a kind. Breuer later named the chair after artist Wassily Kandinsky, his friend at the Bauhaus and the first person to whom he showed the chair.

His use of tubular steel to define lines in space revolutionized furniture construction and inspired subsequent generations of designers.

Part sculpture, part furniture, 100% iconic.

A classic KnollStudio design, produced to Breuer's original specifications.

The KnollStudio logo and the signature of Breuer, Marcel are stamped into the base of the chairs.

AWARDS

The Museum of Modern Art Award, 1968.
Recognition as "Work of Art" Germany, 1982.

Dimensions: 79cm W x 69cm D x 73cm H, with a seat height of 42cm.