The Wassily Armchair

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The Wassily Chair came out of the great crucible of art, design and theory that was the Bauhaus. Like all great innovative movements in the history of ideas, Bauhaus attempted to bring theory and practice closer together and to rediscover connections between art and other human activities. The Wassily Chair Model B3 was designed in 1925 by Marcel Breuer for Wassily Kandinsky's flat. Breuer was trying to create disconnected, aerial shapes which appeared to be sketched in space, but he also aimed to produce "styleless" objects which were essential to modern living. The series of chairs begun with the Wassily revolutionized Western furniture. The Wassily Chair and the statements it makes about form are astonishingly close to the theories set out by Kandinsky in his book Point and Line to Plane.