Is design a piece of art? How important are things that surround us? What you need more: function or esthetic? What is beautiful? I want to tell a little about one of my most favorite chairs - Wassily Chair. It was created by Marcel Breuer who graduated in Bauhaus. All his works, architecture and furniture, aspire to reconcile art and industry. Inspired by the frame of a bicycle and influenced by the constructivist theories of the De Stjil movement, Breuer reduced the form of the classic club chair to its elemental lines and planes. These design (and all subsequent steel tubing furniture) was technologically feasible only because the German steel manufacturer Mannesmann had perfected a process for making seamless steel tubing. Previously, steel tubing had a welded seam, which would collapse when the tubing was bent. In an interview Marcel Breuer described how he came to begin experimenting with bent tubular steel while at the Bauhaus: “At that time I was rather idealistic. 23 years old. I made friends with a young architect, and I bought my first bicycle. I learned to ride the bicycle and talked to this young fellow and told him that the bicycle seems to be a perfect production because it hasn’t changed in the last twenty, thirty years. It is still the original bicycle form. He said, “Did you ever see how they make those parts? How they bend those handlebars? You would be interested because they bend those steel tubes like macaroni. ...This somehow remained in my mind, and I started to think about steel tubes which are bent into frames—probably that is the material you could use for an elastic and transparent chair. Typically, I was very much engaged with the transparency of the form. ...That is how the first chair was made…I realized that the bending had to go further. It should only be bent with no points of welding on it so it could also be chromed in parts and put together. That is how the first Wassily was born. I was myself somewhat afraid of criticism. I didn’t tell anyone I was doing these experiments actually. [Wassily] Kandinsky, who came by chance to my studio when the first chair was brought in, said, “What’s this?” He was very interested and then the Bauhaus got very interested in it. A year later, I had furnished the whole Bauhaus with this furniture.” Kandinsky was so admired Breuer's finished chair design, and only then did Breuer make an additional copy for Kandinsky's use in his home. And yes, against popular belief,the chair was not designed for the great painter Wassily Kandinsky, who liked it so. The chair was first manufactured in the late 1920s under the name Model B3 and went out of production during World War II. And only then, when the chair was re-released in the 1960s, it was designated "Wassily" by its Italian manufacturer, who had learned that Kandinsky had been the recipient of one of the earliest post-prototype units. Design of this became a classic and is still available today. Based on existence of such things, recognition these things, they are more than nice looking things.
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