Knoll Wassily Lounge Chair

Dimensions
Height: 730mm (Seat height: 420mm) x Width: 730mm x Depth: 690mm

Description
A classic KnollStudio design, produced to Breuer's original specifications.

Materials & Finishes
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 wide range of neutral and bright colours. Spinneybeck Haired Hide upholstery option is available in tri-colour (brown, black and white) revealing unique naturalistic markings.

The KnollStudio logo and the signature of Breuer are stamped into the base of the chairs.

 

Protege of Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius, Marcel Breuer embodied many of the School's distinctive concepts and was one of the School's most famous students. He returned shortly thereafter to teach carpentry from 1925 to 1928, and during this time designed his tubular-steel furniture collection: functional, simple and distinctly modern. 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. The Wassily chair was named after his Bauhaus room mate Wassily Kandinsky, the Cesca after his daughter Francesca.