Breuer Chairs

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What is Breuer Chairs? First, let's talk about who made it. Marcel Breuer, architect and furniture designer, Hungarian by birth, is well known today for his radical modern classic designs in modular construction and simple forms. He studied at the Bauhaus and became their crucial faculty member. He was first to introduce tubular steel design in chairs.

The inspiration of the design was said to come from Breuer's bicycle handlebar. The steel tubing design inspired him to create the chair. This was good idea also, because the material was available in quantity. This design was made possible because at that time German steel manufacturer Mannesmann, was able to create a steel tubing that had seamless. Prior to this creation, steel tubing had to be welded and this would collapse if it was bent.

Let's take a look at some Breuer Chairs.

Today, we recognize this Breuer Chairs which is readily available at local furniture or garage sale. This is model 64 Cantilever chair. Freestanding Cantilever chair, probably one of the most noteworthy improvement in 20th century design. Its bold removal of the conventional four-legged construction was radical step begun in 1925 with steel tubular chair.

The B5 chair is one of the earliest designs using tubular steel of Breuer Chairs. Today, his B5 chair from 1926, is among the collection of the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, national Design Museum in New York City.

Breuer chair is an iconic design that has been on our wish list among furniture for a long time. Breuer chair combines classic design bentwood furniture and modern industrial design. Breuer's vision was focused on concept of merging form and function in its most basic fundamental. The B5 chair was one of the revolutionary chair that gave fresh air to the overstuffed Edwardian era furniture.

Another one of Breuer Chairs B3 armchair, created the year prior, came to known as Wassily chair. One of the Bauhaus faculty member, Wassily Kandinsky, admired and owned one. The straps were made of fabric, pulled taut on the reverse side with use of springs. The Thonet produced version of the chair is most rare, and went out of production during World War II. Thank you for reading about Breuer Chairs.

Breuer Chairs - B3

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This is another one of the Breuer Chairs designed by Marcel Breuer, with the model number B3 in 1925-26. This chair was designed while Breuer was head of cabinetry at Bauhaus in Germany. It became known as Wassily not because it was designed for Wassily Kandinsky, but rather because Wassily had admired it once it was completed. The Wassily name came to be decades later when it was re-introduced by Italian company Gavina.

This Breuer chair was first manufactured by Thonet in late 1920, a German-Austrian furniture manufacturer. They was well known previously with bent wood chair designs. The initial model had both folding and not-folding chairs with straps made in fabric pulled with springs. This model is the most rare of them and they went our of production during World War II.

After the war, Gaving gained the license to Wassily chair and other Breuer Chairs sold by Standard-Mobel, Lengyel & Co., and created what is known today of Wassily chair with Black leather straps. However, they did still make ones with fabric straps. In 1968 Knoll company purchased the Gavina and this brought all of Breuer chairs into Knoll catalog.

Wassily chair is still available today. Although patent designs have expired, the trademark rights are still owned by Knoll of NYC. Today, there are numerous manufactures around the world marketing and manufacturing Breuer Chairs with different names than Wassily.

We carry brand new Wassilly chairs that features thick bonded leatherette and is fully assembled. We offer Free shipping and all this for $399. To order email to cavemenauction@gmail.com.

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