An original 1920s Wassily chair from the collection of antique dealer Barry Friedman fetched $30,800 (against a $30,000-to- $50,000 pre-sale estimate) last November at a Sotheby’s auction in New ...

Wassily chairs were expensive when they were invented in 1925 because of the originality of design that set them apart from ...

The Wassily chairs that Ecker got a hold of for $39 are typically worth hundreds or thousands of dollars. The chair can cost as much as $3,633 brand new. A dupe can cost as little as $156 on Ali ...

Breuer's original Wassily Chair design. Museum of Modern Art. MoMA also considers the Wassily to be one of “the single most important innovation in furniture design in the twentieth century.” ...

The chair, called Model B3, is made by Standard-Möbel of Berlin and then by Thonet, which ceases production during World War II. 1928 Breuer designs his canti­levered Cesca chair.

The S02 is my Wassily chair. It’s made out of much lighter tubes – the steel quality of the tubes has improved a lot since 1925 – but it’s also very comfortable. It has a backrest that ...

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 ...

In 1925, Hungarian architect and furniture designer Marcel Breuer, then an apprentice at the furniture-making workshop of the German art school Bauhaus at Dessau designed a revolutionary chair call… ...

An example of the Wassily Chairs is in the permanent collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York (in black canvas) and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (in brown canvas). Tubular chrome ...

Balance: There’s nothing wrong with mixing a chenille sofa with a Barcelona or Wassily chair. Just soften the black leather and chrome by adding color and texture to other items in the room.