Wassily chair

Wassily chair
/vah"seuh lee, vas"euh-/
a chair designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925, having a chromium-plated tubular steel frame over which strips of canvas or leather of varying widths are stretched to form the seat, back, and arms. Also called Breuer chair, Wassily lounge chair.
[after Wassily Kandinsky, for whose house on the Bauhaus campus at Dessau the chair was designed]

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