Marcel Breuer "Wassily" club chair, model no. B3 ca. 1930-1931 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
Marcel Breuer "Wassily" club chair, model no. B3 ca. 1930-1931 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
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