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This old Vintage Wassily chair Model B3, in chromed tubular steel and white leather, was designed by Marcel Breuer and produced by Gavina.
It’s an early edition before 68. It has some Patina on the armrests and on the leather seat.
The Marcel Breuer Stamp on the leather is underneath the leather seat
The Gavina Label behind the back chrom
Best Vintage condition.
We have 2 white Wassilys in STock
Price for 1 ChairCreator: Gavina (Manufacturer),Marcel Breuer (Designer)Dimensions: Height: 28.75 in (73 cm)Width: 30.32 in (77 cm)Depth: 26.78 in (68 cm)Seat Height: 14.18 in (36 cm)Style: Bauhaus (Of the Period)Materials and Techniques: Chrome,Leather,MetalPlace of Origin: ItalyPeriod: Mid-20th CenturyDate of Manufacture: circa 1962-1968Condition: GoodWear consistent with age and use. with some Patina on the leather and sprinkles.Seller Location: Munich, DEReference Number: 1stDibs: LU4347236151522Shop All Marcel Breuer
Marcel Breuer
The architect and designer Marcel Breuer was one the 20th centurys most influential and innovative adherents of modernism. A member of the Bauhaus faculty, Breuer like such colleagues as the architects Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and the artists and art theoreticians Lszl Moholy-Nagy and Josef Albers left Europe in the 1930s to champion the new design philosophy and its practice in the United States.
Born in Hungary, Breuer became a Bauhaus student in 1920 and quickly impressed Gropius, the German schools founder, with his aptitude for furniture design. His early work was influenced by the minimalist Dutch design movement De Stijl in particular the work of architect Gerrit Rietveld.
In 1925, while he was head of the Bauhaus furniture workshop, Breuer realized his signature innovation: the use of lightweight tubular-steel frames for chairs, tables and sofas a technique soon adopted by Mies and others. Breuers attention gradually shifted from design to architecture, and, at the urging of Gropius, he joined his mentor in 1937 on the faculty of Harvard and in an architectural practice.
In the 1940s, Breuer opened his own architectural office, and there his style evolved from geometric, glass-walled structures toward a kind of hybrid architecture seen in numerous Breuer houses in New England that pairs bases of local fieldstone with sleek, wood-framed modernist upper floors. In his later, larger commissions, Breuer worked chiefly with reinforced concrete and stone, as seen in his best-known design, the brutalist inverted ziggurat built in New York in 1966 as the home of the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Breuers most famous furniture pieces are those made of tubular steel, which include the Wassily chair named after Wassily Kandinsky and recognizable for its leather-strap seating supports and the caned Cesca chair.
Breuer also made several notable designs in molded plywood, including a chaise and nesting table for the British firm Isokon and a student furniture suite commissioned in 1938 for a dormitory at Bryn Mawr College. Whether in metal or wood, Breuers design objects are elegant and adaptable examples of classic modernist design useful and appropriate in any environment.
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