Chair (Primary Title)
Club Chair, Model No. B3 ("Wassily Chair") (Former Title)
Marcel Breuer, American, born Hungary, 1902 - 1981 (Artist)
In 1925 while a student at the Bauhaus in Germany, architect and designer Marcel Breuer made the prototype of a tubular steel chair that would revolutionize modern chair design. Breuer’s first chairs were fabricated in nickel-plated steel; VMFA’s chair is among the remaining examples. Breuer was one of the first designers to promote the use of metal in furnishings and interiors. Said to have been inspired by the bent metal forms of a bicycle, Breuer’s early chair eventually became known as the Wassily Chair, named for his colleague and friend, the artist Wassily Kandinsky. This lightweight chair, considered one of the masterpieces of 20th-century design, is still commercially produced.
Sydney and Frances Lewis Endowment Fund
©artist or artist’s estate
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