Club armchair B 3
The club armchair B 3 , also known as the Wassily Chair , is a tubular steel chair designed by Marcel Breuer at the Bauhaus in 1925 . The chair, which is still produced today, is considered a design classic.
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Marcel Breuer designed the chair as a young master and head of the furniture workshop at the Bauhaus in Dessau , inspired by the use of tubular steel in bicycle construction . The seating furniture consists of a square frame made of cold-drawn seamless steel tubes that were originally nickel-plated and are now chrome-plated in today's re-editions. The steel pipes are welded at their connection points. The tubular steel frame is covered with strips of different widths, which give the seating furniture with the seat as well as the back and armrests its typical shape and ensure that the seated person has no contact with the tubular steel. The strips are made of fabric, canvas or leather and of durable and dimensionally stable iron yarn , which was developed by the Bauhausler Margaretha Reichardt in the weaving workshop .
The club armchair B 3 was revolutionary at the time in the use of materials such as bent steel tube and iron thread, as well as in the manufacturing method. The bent steel tubes were manufactured by the Junkers aircraft factory in Dessau using a processing technique that was new at the time . The chair was created as a showpiece of New Living and was part of the furniture in the Bauhaus Dessau building that opened in 1926 .
The German-Austrian furniture manufacturer Thonet undertook industrial production of the chair from the late 1920s . In the 1960s, the Italian Dino Gavina on the furniture designs of Breuer's attention and acquired the license for the club chair B 3. He produced it with moderate success in 1964 in Bologna and was the chair for the sake of marketing the name Wassily Chair , the only has been in use since that time. Gavina knew that the Bauhaus master Wassily Kandinsky liked the chair and that he had a copy made for his master house in Dessau . After Gavina was bought up by the US office furniture manufacturer Knoll International in 1968, the chair is now manufactured by Knoll.
Web links
- Club armchair B 3, 2nd version at bauhaus100.de
- Wassily ™ Chair at the manufacturer Knoll
Individual evidence
- ↑ Design classic: The B3 club chair at Deutsche Welle on December 10, 2016
- ↑ From chair to work of art - The Wassily chair by Marcel Breuer at denkerinnen.de
- ↑ Wassily armchair B3 at designklassiker.de
- ↑ Furniture reinvented at Deutschlandfunk Kultur on May 31, 2012