You can purchase the chair from Design Within Reach at $3,600. There are payment plans available through Affirm, starting at $101 per month. What are the upholstery or customization options?

Now that architect Marcel Breuer 's famous 1925 Wassily chair has risen well past the stage of modern design icon to become ubiquitious in homes as well as offices, it's worth a look at how it ...

It’s not, by even the most austere sitter’s standards, a comfortable-looking chair – not one you could see yourself curling up in with a good book – but the Wassily Chair is a modern classic.

In the case of Hungarian-born designer Marcel Breuer, his Wassily chair began as a quiet design experiment that went on to achieve cult status for nearly a century. A student of the legendary ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The Wassily chair, one of several designs closely associated with the Bauhaus movement, was inspired by a bicycle.

Eventually, Breuer designed two pieces of furniture that changed chair design forever: the Cesca Chair and the Wassily Chair. The Cesca was the first chair made out of a combination of tubular ...

So, an iconic chair brimming with design history. Naturally with such stature comes sky-high prices. Wassily chairs were expensive when they were invented in 1925 because of the originality of ...

This naturally propagated the design movement’s ideals across the world in the middle of the century. Perhaps the most enduring product of the Bauhaus furniture designers, the Wassily Chair ...

His roots in design began as a teen ... such as the Barcelona and Brno chairs by Mies and the Cesca and Wassily chairs by Marcel Breuer, paying them commissions and royalties while making their ...

The other was to design a cantilever chair, or one supported by a single base. His experiments produced the angular B3 chair in 1925, which he nicknamed the ‘Wassily’ after his fellow tutor at ...

This time, the thrift gods blessed Ecker with a design classic, the Wassily chairs, but not without a good fight. Once Ecker first noticed the chairs at the Goodwill, they had a hold sign on them.