Wassily Lounge Chair - Natural Canvas

The iconic Wassily Chair is constructed of leather or canvas straps stretched across a tubular steel frame—originally inspired by the bends in a bicycle. It was the first chair of its kind in 1925, and it remains a celebrated symbol of modernism today.

In 1925, Marcel Breuer was an apprentice at the Bauhaus when he reduced the classic club chair to its elemental lines and forever altered the future of furniture design.

He was inspired to work with tubular steel after hearing the material is “bent like macaroni” to make bicycle frames. “I was very much engaged in the transparency of the form,” said Breuer, who, upon recognizing the potential of this lightweight, sturdy, malleable material, knew he could create the furniture he envisioned.

An early prototype intrigued his associate Wassily Kandisky, for whom the chair is now named.