Upholstered in premium Spinneybeck leather in a range of colourways, the Wassily chair offers a bold and distinctive take on the lounge chair form that remains at the cutting edge of chair design almost a century on from its introduction. With the Wassily chair, named after Breuer’s colleague at the Bauhaus school, the painter Wassily Kandinsky, the designer condensed the form of the classic club chair to its fundamental structure.
Avant-garde, yet timeless, and far more comfortable than its aesthetic might suggest, the Wassily lounge chair remains one of the high water marks for the possibilities of the form, where art meets design, and where creativity rules supreme.
A protege of Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius, Hungarian-born modernist architect and furniture designer Marcel Breuer embodied many of the School's distinctive concepts and was one of the School's most famous students. Breuer returned to the Bauhaus to teach carpentry from 1925 to 1928 and during this time designed his functional, simple and distinctly modern tubular-steel furniture collection. His attention drifted towards architecture, and after practising privately, he worked as a professor at Harvard's School of Design under Gropius. Breuer was also honoured as the first architect to be the sole artist of an exhibit at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Marcel Breuer's most famous designs include the Wassily lounge chair, named after his Bauhaus room mate Wassily Kandinsky, and the Cesca after his daughter Francesca.
