Marcel Breuer's "Wassily Chair" now wears black

Knoll closes the Bauhaus year with a strictly limited reissue of a distinctive Bauhaus classic.

Still timeless, Breuer's constructivist design blends into contemporary interiors as a favorite of architects and interior designers. Knoll International

Only 500 pieces comprise Knoll's "Bauhaus Edition" of Marcel Breuer's "Wassily Chair," which differs from the original design in its black steel frame.

Designed between 1925 and 1926, the Hungarian architect's straight-lined tubular steel debut with its chrome-plated round tubular steel frame promptly became a symbol of the modernist avant-garde. Breuer, then still a young master carpenter at the Bauhaus, originally designed his "B3" armchair for the living rooms of the painter Wassily Kandinsky. It was reissued by the Gavina company in 1960 and became the Bauhaus classic's namesake.

Marcel Breuer found inspiration for his armchair in the industrial forms of his time. Frames in particular, such as the handlebars of his own bicycle, are said to have prompted him to experiment with tubular steel furniture.

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