The Wassily chair, one of several designs closely associated with the Bauhaus movement, was inspired by a bicycle. Its designer, Marcel Breuer (1902-1981), graduated from the Bauhaus carpentry ...

Caroline Ecker (@carolineecker) is a seasoned thrifter. Her page boasts several thrift finds, deals, and restoration projects. This time, the thrift gods blessed Ecker with a design classic, the ...

Classic designs are around for a reason. Why one piece becomes a sensation over another is always a matter of debate. In the case of Hungarian-born designer Marcel Breuer, his Wassily chair began as a ...

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Now that architect Marcel Breuer 's famous 1925 Wassily chair has risen well past the stage of modern design icon to become ubiquitious in homes as well as offices, it's worth a look at how it came to ...

Every time you plop yourself down in a chair at work, rush to your favorite seat in class, or lounge at your desk at home, you can thank the Bauhaus Movement. The Bauhaus was originally a German arts ...

In 1925, Hungarian architect and furniture designer Marcel Breuer, then an apprentice at the furniture-making workshop of the German art school Bauhaus at Dessau designed a revolutionary chair called ...

There are strikingly few examples of the Bauhaus wearing glasses. Of the 12 on the cover of the school’s magazine from 1928 only two are bespectacled; the artist Wassily Kandinsky turns to his right, ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. The Wassily chair, one of several designs closely associated with the Bauhaus movement, was inspired by a bicycle.