It’s hopeful and energetic; the essence of modernism.
“The Wassily is not cushy and comfy.
Its seat and back are leather straps.
Marcel Breuer seated in a Wassily Chair.Credit: Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images
This is a chair with no fluff.”
Breuer called his creation Club Chair model B3.
“American modernism comes straight from the Bauhaus,” Dr. Gatlin says.
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“It was a powerhouse of modern culture and we feel its influences to this day.”
That’s when U.S. factories begin making consumer goods again instead of bullets and tanks.
Wassily Chairs were never especially affordable, despite all the utopian intentions and despite the mass production.
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Expect to find the chairs for about$3,000 for leather seatsand$2,800 for canvas seats.
Breuer died in 1981, but the Wassily Chair remains one of Modernism’s mosticonic chairs.
“It’s hopeful and energetic, the essence of modernism.”
