- Product:
- Wassily club chair, model no. B3
- Manufacturer:
- Phillips
- Architonic ID:
- 4109435
- Launched:
- 1930
- Country:
- United States
- Category:
- Furnishings
- Address
- Telephone
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Key facts
Product description
Nickel-plated tubular steel, Eisengarn.
29 3/4 in. (75.6 cm) high
Manufactured by Gebrüder Thonet, Germany.
Provenance:
Collection Alexander von Vegesack, Weil am Rhein, Germany
Literature:
Christopher Wilk, Marcel Breuer Furniture and Interiors, exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1981, p. 51, fig. 41 for a period photo of the B3 in Laszlo Maholy-Nagy's living room, 1926; Alexander von Vegesack, et al., eds., Thonet Tubular Steel Furniture, First Complete Catalogue Collection of German and French Models 1930-1931, Weil am Rhein, 1989, n.p.; Magdalena Droste, Manfred Ludewig and Bauhaus Archiv, Marcel Breuer Design, Cologne, 2001, pp. 62-63 for variations, p. 73 for a period photo of the B3 in Walter Gropius's house, 1926; Bauhaus Furniture, A Legend Reviewed, exh. cat., Bauhaus Archiv Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, 2003, pp. 235-240 for period photos
29 3/4 in. (75.6 cm) high
Manufactured by Gebrüder Thonet, Germany.
Provenance:
Collection Alexander von Vegesack, Weil am Rhein, Germany
Literature:
Christopher Wilk, Marcel Breuer Furniture and Interiors, exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1981, p. 51, fig. 41 for a period photo of the B3 in Laszlo Maholy-Nagy's living room, 1926; Alexander von Vegesack, et al., eds., Thonet Tubular Steel Furniture, First Complete Catalogue Collection of German and French Models 1930-1931, Weil am Rhein, 1989, n.p.; Magdalena Droste, Manfred Ludewig and Bauhaus Archiv, Marcel Breuer Design, Cologne, 2001, pp. 62-63 for variations, p. 73 for a period photo of the B3 in Walter Gropius's house, 1926; Bauhaus Furniture, A Legend Reviewed, exh. cat., Bauhaus Archiv Museum für Gestaltung, Berlin, 2003, pp. 235-240 for period photos