Knoll
Wassily Armchair
Price starting from € 2.245,00*
*Price valid for the version in natural canvas and frame in glossy chrome (cod. 50 LC 04).
Wassily Chair assumes a dominant importance in the design world due to its structure made using a 20 mm diameter steel tube for the first time. Marcel Breuer designs it for the Kandinsky's residence in Dessau, where the Bauhaus school was located, starting from the idea of the Adler’s bicycle. In the years following its launch on the market, which happened in 1925, Wassily endured many changes, the most important one is related to the frame that today is made up of a unique continuous tube folded several times. It was born with the company whose Marcel Breuer was founder, this piece of furniture passed in 1929 into the hands of Thonet before being sold to Knoll who today holds the exclusive rights for the production.
W.79 x D.69 x H.73 cm
Seat Height 42 cm
Armrest Height 58,5 cm
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Landed in the United States at the beginning of the ‘30s, Hans Knoll, a young German-born son of a furniture-maker in Stuttgart, proposed to import into the new continent the modern European design, contemporary heritage of the Bauhaus. Died prematurely, his work was continued by his wife, Florence Knoll, who succeeded in establishing lasting partnerships with some of the greatest exponents of the modernist movement. Few years later the Knoll Associates was founded. Today, Knoll is not only a company of re-selling historic furnishings of great artistic value, but continues to innovate by offering creations of the major international design brands both in the home area and in the office furnitures sector.Read more
Designed by
Marcel Breuer
Marcel Breuer (1902-1981), Hungarian architect and designer, was one of the great protagonists of the Bauhaus. After being a pupil of the Bauhaus School in Weimar, he was chosen at a very young age by the director Walter Gropius to manage the school's furniture workshop. He therefore has the opportunity to experience as a protagonist an inimitable season of creative ferments, in which the very concept of “modern furniture” takes shape. His creations of the time feature an innovative material such as tubular metal, to which Breuer manages to give an unusual elegance, and will find the way to mass production thanks to the Thonet company. With the coming to power of Nazism, Breuer, of Jewish origin, was forced to flee abroad, first taking refuge in London for a few years (during which he was able to create furniture for the Isokon brand) and then following his mentor Gropius in the United States. There he became a professor of architecture at Harvard University and began an intense and successful activity as an architect, with works such as the Whitney Museum of American Art in Manhattan or the Hooper House in Baltimore. In the 1960s he met the brilliant Italian entrepreneur Dino Gavina who convinced him to put his furniture back into production for the Gavina company (which was then sold to Knoll a few years later).Read more