![cover image](https://wikiwandv2-19431.kxcdn.com/_next/image?url=https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Bauhaus_Chair_Breuer.png/640px-Bauhaus_Chair_Breuer.png&w=640&q=50)
Wassily Chair
Chair designed by Marcel Breuer / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The Wassily Chair, also known as the Model B3 chair, was designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925–1926 while he was the head of the cabinet-making workshop at the Bauhaus, in Dessau, Germany.
This article needs additional citations for verification. (November 2016) |
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/1/19/Bauhaus_Chair_Breuer.png/640px-Bauhaus_Chair_Breuer.png)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/30/Marcel_Breuer_Faltsessel_Chair_D4_%281927%29.jpg/640px-Marcel_Breuer_Faltsessel_Chair_D4_%281927%29.jpg)
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/fc/Bauhaus_building_-_Wassily_Chairs_by_Marcel_Breuer_%281925_26%29_%283925088681%29.jpg/640px-Bauhaus_building_-_Wassily_Chairs_by_Marcel_Breuer_%281925_26%29_%283925088681%29.jpg)
Despite popular belief, the chair was not designed specifically for the non-objective painter Wassily Kandinsky, who was on the Bauhaus faculty at the same time. Kandinsky had admired the completed design, and Breuer fabricated a duplicate for Kandinsky's personal quarters. The chair became known as "Wassily" decades later when it was re-released by Italian manufacturer Gavina which had learned of the anecdotal Kandinsky connection in the course of its research on the chair's origins.