Miniatures B3 Wassily Chair

Marcel Breuer was one of the most important designers of the early modern age. His biography is closely linked to the history of the Bauhaus, founded by Walter Gropius in 1919.

The club chair B3, known today as »Wassily« was also created in connection with this renowned institution. lt is the first piece of seating furniture in the history of design to be made from seamless, precision-drawn tubular steel. lts transparency and visible structure are expressions of the stringent aesthetic approach that prevailed in architecture and design following World War I.

The B3 Wassily miniature is part of the unique Vitra Miniatures Collection which presents the most important classics of modern furniture history. In miniature. The design, material, and colour exactly match the details of the original from the collection of the Vitra Design Museum. Thus, the miniatures are not only valuable collectors' objects, but also ideal materials for universities, design schools, and architects.

The B3 did not acquire the name »Wassily« until the beginning of the sixties, when the Italian furniture producer Dino Gavina purchased the manufacturing rights: Marcel Breuer had designed the armchair for the house of the painter Wassily Kandinsky, who taught at the Bauhaus from 1922 until 1933.

The chairs in the Miniatures Collection from the Vitra Design Museum are models, reduced on a scale of 1:6, which replicate the most important classics of modern furniture design down to the smallest detail. Each Vitra miniature is true to the larger original in construction, materials and colours. Packaged in a wooden box, accompanied by an informational booklet.

Each of the objects is made by hand, requiring an average of five hours of careful manual work.