Designed by Marcel Breuer.Marcel designed this chair while he was an apprentice at the Bauhaus in 1925. This chair was designed to oppose the traditional way of designing furniture. Furniture was normally made from wood. The Wassily chair is evidence that The Bauhaus Movement revolutionised the way Art, Design and Applied arts were done.

The Wassily chair for me fulfils its purpose; this chair that is manufactured using two materials, thick leather and tubular steel frames that has a chrome finish. This chair is inspired by the bicycle and named after Marcel’s friend Wassily Kardinsky. This chair has a supportive leather back rest and a strong leather support for the occupiers’ buttocks. The chair supports any height and the arm-rests are of sufficient length for any tall person. The part of the chair that you sit on is inclined so that the occupier can sit back with a laptop on their lap and they will not have to lean forward in order to see the laptop’s screen. The occupier will be comfortable at all times learning back and relaxing. The steel frame legs make sure that the Wassily chair supports a person of any weight.

The Bauhaus (1919 – 1933) changed how design was done. The Bauhaus introduced a concept called “Functionalism”. This concept explains that the design of an object should be suitable for the product’s purpose. Look at this chair, do you think if its design fulfils its’ purpose? This movement opened doors to an unlimited way of thinking, thinking “outside the box” if you will, for designers of that time and designers of the future.

I want one of these chairs.

Karabo Mashishi