wassily lounge chair

Marcel Lajos Breuer (1902-1981) was a Hungarian born student and teacher at the Bauhaus in the 1920s, eventually becoming head of its carpentry workshop. His most famous design while there was of tubular steel though, the Wassily chair, which was inspired by his bicycle handlebars. Its manufacturers named it for Wassily Kandinsky, to whom Breuer gifted an early prototype. Breuer relocated to London in the 1930s, due to the rise of the Nazi party in Germany. While in London, Breuer was employed by Jack Pritchard at the Isokon company, one of the earliest introducers of modern design to the United Kingdom. Breuer eventually ended up in the United States, teaching at Harvard's architecture school, working with students such as Philip Johnson, Paul Rudolph and I.M. Pei. He designed many houses in the Boston area alongside former Bauhaus colleague Walter Gropius and formed a business with him until 1941, at which point Breuer started his own firm in New York.

American furniture brand Knoll has been adhering to the Bauhaus design concept for 75 years, that is, modern furniture should fill the interior space of the building instead of occupying space. At Knoll, modern design has always been our guiding principle and our passion has always been shared by our global customers and design experts. Good design has always been the driving force behind Knoll's progress. Since 1938 Knoll has been focusing on and thinking about how people interact with their environment and how their environment affects their work. No company can match our product lineup because our products combine modern aesthetics with a living experience. For many years. Knoll has always worked with renowned architects and designers to provide creativity, groundbreaking furniture, textiles and accessories that inspire the experience and enhance your self-expression and self-worth. Knoll has extensive research on ergonomics and health, such as ten tips for healthier workspace infographics; Ergonomic setup guide: sit-up workstations; ergonomic skills in 10 healthier work areas, etc. Knoll puts health first, which is the biggest change in the positioning of furniture products in work life. . Knoll is also a responsible brand and a founding sponsor of the World Heritage Foundation (WMF) Risk Modernism Program. WMF is a non-profit organization dedicated to protecting the world's architectural heritage. Committed to protecting modernist masterpieces that were built less than a century after construction, they are often dismantled, destroyed or abandoned.