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Wassily chair

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[vah-suh-lee, vas-uh-] / ˈvɑ sə li, ˈvæs ə- /

noun

  1. a chair designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925, having a chromium-plated tubular steel frame over which strips of canvas or leather of varying widths are stretched to form the seat, back, and arms.


Etymology

Origin of Wassily chair

After Wassily Kandinsky, for whose house on the Bauhaus campus at Dessau the chair was designed

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Inspired by his bicycle's handlebars in 1925, he bent tubular steel into a frame, slung canvas in between and created the great "Wassily" chair.

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