marcel breuer · 1925

club chair

Breuer ran the furniture workshop at Dessau. this chair is made of one bent steel tube with fabric bands stretched across it, light enough to lift with one hand and simple enough to make in a factory. it was later sold as the Wassily chair.

draw it in the form lab lesson: a chair from a square

the shapes inside

bent steel tubeone pipe, curved at right angles.

stretched bandsfabric as seat, back and arms.

a cube of spacethe whole chair fits a square.

facts

1925made

breuerdesigner

3shapes

see it in the app, with the parts you can tap.

open it in the app the workshops at the school