Wassily chair

Marcel Breuer, 1925. Made by Knoll Breuer was still at the Bauhaus when he stripped the overstuffed club chair down to a skeleton of bent tubular steel with taut leather or canvas slung across it for seat, back and arms. The idea came from bicycle frames, whose steel he heard was bent like macaroni. It was the first chair of its kind, and the name came later, after Breuer's Bauhaus colleague Wassily Kandinsky, who admired an early prototype. Breuer granted Knoll the production rights, and Knoll makes the authorized version today.