The Wassily chair by Marcel Breuer is an easily recognisable and iconic piece of design. Inspired by the frame of a bicycle and influenced by the constructivist theories of the De Stjil movement, Marcel Breuer was still an apprentice at the Bauhaus when he reduced the classic club chair to its elemental lines and planes and changed the world of furniture forever.
Marcel Breuer, was a Hungarian-born modernist architect, and furniture designer. At the Bauhaus he designed the Wassily Chair and the Cesca Chair which is “among the 10 most important chairs of the 20ᵗʰ century.” He became famous for his pioneering tubular steel furniture,
