B3 chair, Wassily, 1925, by Marcel Breuer (1902-1981), nickel-plated steel tube frame, seat and backrest...

B3 chair, Wassily, 1925, by Marcel Breuer (1902-1981), nickel-plated steel tube frame, seat and backrest in eisengarn or leather. 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. The fabric used was made from Eisengarn, a strong, shiny, waxed-cotton thread. It had been invented in the 19th century, but Margaretha Reichardt (1907-1984), a student at the Bauhaus weaving workshop, experimented and improved the quality of the thread and developed cloth and strapping material for use on Breuer's tubular-steel chairs