Pair Of “wassily” Armchairs, After Marcel Breuer's Model By Knoll, Circa 1980

Beautiful pair of “Wissaly” model armchairs designed by Marcel Breuer from 1925, these armchairs are in chrome tubes and black leather. Published by Knoll. Marcel Breuer designed this chair using the structure of a bicycle as a model: if a person can stand on a bicycle and move around with it, then we can build a chair out of a metal tube and sit on it. Its complicated structure illustrates the fact that the young designer was only at the beginning of his research. Later, he obtains structures that are simpler, clearer, more beautiful to see, easier to manufacture, less costly in terms of materials. Friend with Breuer, the painter Wassily Kandinsky greatly appreciated this chair, so that Marcel Breuer made a copy to offer it to him. This is why the 1960 reissue of this chair named it “Wassily Chair”, without it having originally been designed for Kandinsky. Marcel Lajos Breuer, born May 21, 1902 in Pécs (Hungary) and died July 1, 1981 in New York1, is an architect and furniture designer who was an influential modernist. One of the fathers of modernism, Breuer had a great interest in modular constructions and simple forms.