The infamous Knoll Wassily Lounge Chair, by Bauhaus architect and designer Marcel Breuer.
Dimensions
Height: 73cm x Width: 79cm x Depth: 69cm
Seat height: 42cm
Materials & finishes
Chair frame is seamless tubular steel with a polished chrome finish. Opaque, plastic, snap-in-place glides are included for optional insertion when used on hard floors.
Spinneybeck Belting Leather upholstery option is available in a range of colours. Spinneybeck Haired Hide upholstery option is available in a Tri colour, revealing unique naturalistic markings. Also available in Natural Canvas finish.
Designed by
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.
