Wassily chair
The armchair that made steel tube a furniture material.
Marcel Breuer was a young teacher at the Bauhaus in Dessau when in 1925 he began bending steel tube, inspired by the handlebars of his bicycle. The result was an armchair that looks like a drawing of itself.
It got its name much later, when it was put back into production in the 1960s and named after Wassily Kandinsky, Breuer's colleague at the Bauhaus.
Materials: Chrome-plated steel tube and stretched canvas or leather
Manufacture: The tubes are bent and screwed together; the fabric is stretched between them.
Everything is construction: you can see straight through the chair.
The fabric carries the body, the tubes carry the fabric.
The tubes are bent, not welded, as on a bicycle.