Wassily Chair Mid-Century Modern

Note: the watermark in the lower right does not appear in the final print.... more

by Edward Fielding

Title

Wassily Chair Mid-Century Modern

Artist

Edward Fielding

Medium

Digital Art - Painting

Description

note: the watermark in the lower right does not appear in the final print.
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A mid-century modern classic chair painting - Edward M. Fielding - www.edwardfielding.com
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Marcel Breuer, experimenting with tubular steel, designed the Wassily Chair, reducing the form of the classic club chair to its elemental lines and planes.The Wassily Chair, also known as the Model B3 chair, was designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925-1926 while he was the head of the cabinet-making workshop at the Bauhaus, in Dessau, Germany. Despite popular belief, the chair was not designed for the non-objective painter Wassily Kandinsky, who was concurrently on the Bauhaus faculty. However, Kandinsky had admired the completed design, and Breuer fabricated a duplicate for Kandinsky's personal quarters. The chair became known as "Wassily" decades later, when it was re-released by an Italian manufacturer named Gavina who had learned of the anecdotal Kandinsky connection in the course of his research on the chair's origins.

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May 19th, 2017