Clubchair model no. 133 known as the "Wassily" chair, designed by Marcel Breuer and manufactured by , bent nickeled tubular steel frame, green fabric, (3 screws and fabric replaced).

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Clubchair model no. 133 known as the "Wassily" chair, designed by Marcel Breuer and manufactured by , bent nickeled tubular steel frame, green fabric, (3 screws and fabric replaced).
75cm high x 76cm wide x 68cm deep
Literature
Christopher Wilk, Marcel Breuer Furniture and Interiors, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1982, p. 37- 41, illustrated fig. 24, 27, 41, 61.
Alexander von Vegesack, Deutsche Stahlrohr Mobel, Munchen, 1986, p. 30, 33, 37 and illustrated p. 30.
Magdalena Droste, Bauhaus, Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, Koln, 1990. p.130-131 & p. 152.
Sammlung Katalog, Bauhaus-Archiv Museum fur Gestaltung, Berlin, 1981, p.96, no. 167

Lot Essay

Marcel Breuer entered the Bauhaus in 1920 as a atudent and graduated there in 1924. He returned in 1925 to become head of the carpentry workshop, remaining until 1928 when he left not to return.

In 1925 Breuer had purchased his first bycicle and was so impressed by its lightness and strength that he had the brilliant idea of using tubular steel for furniture. His first experimental tubular steel piece was the club-type armchair, the design was worked on and the finished version was not produced until 1927. Writing about it in 1927 he said: "It is my most extreme work both in its outward appearance and in the use of materials; it is the least artistic, the most logical, the least "cosy" and the most mechanical".

It became known as the "Wassily" chair because of Kandinsky's admiration for it.

A limited number of club armchairs was produced in 1925. In this early version of the chair nickled steel was used. Only a few known examples of this early version exist. In later years the design was adapted. The chair was made of chrome-plared tubes of steel and a strenghtening bar was added near the base.

The chair illustrated in Christopher Wilk's book (fig.24), Breuer considered to be his "final " version. The chair offered here seems to relate very closely to this version.

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