Marcel Breuer - Gavina - Armchair - Wassily Christian Plat Chair - 1960s

Marcel breuer - gavina - armchair - wassily chair. Christian dish. In 1962, dino gavina, an italian design entrepreneur, met marcel breuer in new york and convinced him to take up and implement his designs from the 1920s. After the sale of gavina to the american knoll in 1968 and the closure of the bolognese brand, several products were sold under the knoll brand. Armchair in excellent original condition. The frame is solid and solid, it has been carefully cleaned and polished. The leather upholstery is also in excellent condition, without seams or cuts, but with some signs of use. The wassily chair, also known as the model b3 chair, was designed by marcel breuer. At that time, in 1925, he was director of the carpentry workshop at the bauhaus in dessau. This chair was revolutionary in its use of materials (eisegarn [and curved nickel-plated steel tubes]) and production methods. After checking the strength of the steel tube used in the construction of the adler bicycle, breuer thought of using steel tubes to make furniture [. He turned to adler to create a breuer chair, but the company did not agree, then he turned to the mannesmann company, which in 1885-86 processed steel pipes using techniques innovative. He then folded the different elements he needed and built the first prototype. The same year, le corbusier presented a tubular steel staircase “built like a bicycle frame” at the paris decorative arts fair. The position of the seat and back b 3 shows the influence of the red and blue chair by gerrit rietveld (rood-blauwe stoel). The b 3 chair, originally manufactured by standard möbel of berlin, became a mass product in the 1960s after dino gavina was persuaded to reissue the tubular chair in 1962 after meeting the hungarian designer in new york.

Ref. : AH6K983J