Olive Canvas Wassily Chair by Marcel Breuer, Italy, 1930s
By Marcel Breuer
Located in London, England
The Wassily Chair, also known as the Model B3 chair, is a famous and iconic piece of modern furniture design.
Steel, Chrome
Marcel Breuer Early Canvas Model B3 "Wassily" Chair, Green Eisengarn
By Standard Möbel, Marcel Breuer
Located in SAINT LOUIS, MO
He reasoned that if the material could be bent into handlebars, it could be bent into forms for furniture. The chair was dubbed the “Wassily” after the painter Vasily (or Wassily) Ka...
Steel, Chrome
Marcel Breuer Early Canvas Model B3 "Wassily" Chair, Black Eisengarn
By Marcel Breuer, Standard Möbel
Located in SAINT LOUIS, MO
He reasoned that if the material could be bent into handlebars, it could be bent into forms for furniture. The chair was dubbed the “Wassily” after the painter Vasily (or Wassily) Ka...
Steel, Chrome
B3 Wassily Chair by Marcel Breuer
By Marcel Breuer
Located in Miami, FL
B3 wassily chair by marcel breuer for gavina, italy 1960’s The Wassily Lounge Chair was designed by Marcel Breuer.
Steel, Chrome
1960s Wassily Chairs by Marcel Breuer for Gavina / Knoll in Original Canvas
By Gavina, Knoll, Marcel Breuer
Located in Philadelphia, PA
These are original Wassily Lounge Chairs, model B3, initially designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925.
Steel, Chrome
1960s Marcel Breuer for Gavina / Knoll Wassily Lounge Chair in Linen
By Marcel Breuer
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This is a Wassily Lounge Chair, Model B3, originally designed by Marcel Breuer in 1925. These particular examples date back to the 1960s. Their design features rare 100% linen uphols...
Steel, Chrome
Marcel Breuer Red Canvas Wassily Lounge Chair by Knoll Studio
By Knoll, Marcel Breuer
Located in Vilnius, LT
Wassily lounge chair, designed by Marcel Breuer, circa 1925.
Chrome
Marcel Breuer Early Canvas Model B3 "Wassily" Chair by Gavina
By Gavina, Marcel Breuer
Located in Dronten, NL
An exceptional early example of Marcel Breuer’s iconic Model B3 “Wassily” chair, produced by Gavina in Italy. This rare edition features the original natural canvas upholstery, highl...
Chrome
Very Early Wassily Chair, Model B3 by Marcel Breuer
By Thonet, Marcel Breuer
Located in Bern, CH
This Wassily chair (model B3) was designed by Marcel Breuer and manufactured by Thonet in France.
Steel
Breuer Wassily Canvas and Chromed Lounge Chair
By Marcel Breuer
Located in Cincinnati, OH
A hard to find canvas slung Wassily lounge chair with sculptural steel chromed frame by Marcel Breuer finished in a yellowish canvas material.
Canvas
Knoll Wassily Chair By Marcel Breuer
By Marcel Breuer
Located in Bedford Hills, NY
rare canvas wassily chair by marcel breuer, older solid frame construction.
Metal
Sold
H 28.35 in W 30.71 in L 28.35 in
1960s B3 Wassily Chair in Orange Canvas by Marcel Breuer for Gavina, Bauhaus A
By Gavina, Marcel Breuer
Located in Stow on the Wold, GB
This has been done some time ago (probably in the 1970s) and is very reminiscent of the period the chairs were produced. There is patination and paint loss to the canvas on the chair...
Chrome
Sold
H 28.35 in W 30.71 in D 25.99 in
1960s B3 Wassily Chair in Orange Canvas by Marcel Breuer for Gavina Bauhaus B
By Gavina, Marcel Breuer
Located in Stow on the Wold, GB
This has been done some time ago (probably in the 1970s) and is very reminiscent of the period the chairs were produced. There is patination and paint loss to the canvas on the chair...
Chrome
Sold
H 28.75 in W 30.71 in D 25.99 in
1960s B3 Wassily Chair in Beige Canvas by Marcel Breuer for Gavina Bauhaus B
By Gavina, Marcel Breuer
Located in Stow on the Wold, GB
The chrome is in good condition with minimal marks to it. The canvas is also good, there is some loss to the stitching on the arms, this is purely decorative and does not affect the ...
Chrome
Sold
H 28.75 in W 30.71 in D 25.99 in
1960s B3 Wassily Chair in beige Canvas by Marcel Breuer for Gavina Bauhaus A
By Gavina, Marcel Breuer
Located in Stow on the Wold, GB
Gavina produced the Wassily chair under licence between 1962 and 1968, then Knoll purchased the Gavina company and took over production.
Chrome
Wassily Chair in the style of Marcel Breuer, 1980s
By Marcel Breuer
Located in bruxelles, BE
Armchair in Chromed metal and beige canvas . Seat height: 41 cm. Wear due to time and age of the chair.
Metal
Pair of "Wassily" Chairs by Marcel Breuer for Gavina, 1970s
By Gavina, Marcel Breuer
Located in bruxelles, BE
Pair of Armchairs in Chromed metal and beige canvas (fabric). Stamped Gavina. Seat height: 43 cm. wear due to time and age of the chair.
Metal
Marcel Breuer Chrome / Canvas Wassily Chair for Knoll
By Marcel Breuer
Located in Cincinnati, OH
An early 1960s chromed seamless metal frame and heavy off white cream canvas Wassily chair, an International style icon manufactured by Knoll.
Canvas
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H 28.75 in W 31.25 in D 26 in
Very Rare 1962 Gavina Blue Canvas Wassily Chairs Pre-Knoll Production
By Marcel Breuer, Gavina
Located in South Charleston, WV
Blue canvas - not denim. Prior to Knoll collecting the license in 1968, Gavina of Italy was the license holder for the production of the Wassily chair by Marcel Breuer.
Chrome
Sold
H 28 in W 30 in D 26 in
Pair of Vintage Mid-Century Modern canvas Wassily Lounge Chairs for Knoll
By Stendig Co., Marcel Breuer, Knoll
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pair of Vintage Mid-Century Modern natural canvas cloth wassily lounge chairs for Knoll. The Wassily lounge chair was originally designed by Marcel Breuer has flat caps on the end tu...
Steel, Chrome
Sold
H 28.35 in W 30.71 in D 25.6 in
Vintage Canvas Textile Marcel Breuer Wassily Lounge Chair for GAVINA
By Gavina, Marcel Breuer
Located in Vilnius, LT
Vintage Wassily chair, designed by Marcel Breuer, circa 1920.
Steel
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H 28.35 in W 30.71 in D 25.6 in
Vintage Canvas Textile Marcel Breuer Wassily Lounge Chair for Gavina
By Gavina, Marcel Breuer
Located in Vilnius, LT
Vintage Wassily chair, designed by Marcel Breuer, circa 1920.
Steel
Marcel Breuer Red Canvas Wassily Lounge Chair by Knoll Studio
By Marcel Breuer, Knoll
Located in Vilnius, LT
Wassily lounge chair, designed by Marcel Breuer, circa 1925.
Chrome
1960s Wassily B3 Chair by Marcel Breuer for Gavina in Canvas
By Gavina, Marcel Breuer
Located in Stow on the Wold, GB
Wassily chair designed by Marcel Breuer and manufactured by Gavina, Italy.
Chrome
Sold
H 28.75 in W 28.75 in D 24.81 in
Wassily Chair by Marcel Breuer for Gavina / Stendig (black canvas)
By Marcel Breuer
Located in Princeton Junction, NJ
Wassily chair by Marcel Breuer for Stendig / Gavina.
Metal
Mid-20th Century Marcel Breuer 'Wassily' Chair for Gavina
By Marcel Breuer, Gavina
Located in Miami, FL
A fine Marcel Breuer 'Wassily' chair, produced before 1968 in Italy by Gavina.
Chrome
Marcel Breuer's Wassily Chair by Knoll
By Marcel Breuer
Located in Atlanta, GA
A c.1970 example of Breuer's classic Wassily chair in natural canvas, as the chair was originally designed.
Chrome, Steel
$1,857 / set
H 21.66 in W 24.02 in D 35.83 in
Pair of Italian Mid-Century-Modern Lounge Chairs in Ochre Boucle, 1970s Italy
Located in Zagreb, HR
Pair of Vintage Italian Mid-Century Modern lounge chairs or club chairs. Modules can be used as a modular sofa or modular seating set. Beautiful and unique shape. A 1970 design and p...
Bouclé, Foam, Wood
$1,650 / item
H 16.1 in Dm 11.5 in
'Plissé White Edition' Pleated Textile Table Lamp by Folkform for Örsjö
By Örsjö Industri AB
Located in Glendale, CA
'Plissé White Edition' pleated textile table lamp by Folkform for Örsjö. This unique table lamp was awarded “Lighting of the Year 2022” by Residence Magazine Sweden, who called it “...
Textile
$4,900 / item
H 34 in W 86 in D 42 in
Custom Made Modern English Arm Sofa in Performance Linen Velvet - 86"
By Bloom Home Inc
Located in Old Town Orange, CA
This beautiful english arm sofa has a modern twist, with its single bench cushion, and beautiful curved apron sides. It’s upholstered in a Linen Velvet Performance fabric. Shown in...
Linen, Velvet
$6,850 / set
H 24.01 in Dm 13.78 in
Pair of Constant Night Stands in Iroko Wood by Master Studio for Lemon
By Lemon
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Neatly proportioned with exceptional detailing, the constant nightstand is your perfect bedside partner. In our furniture making, the IDEA is to create special pieces that you can bu...
Hardwood
Bertu Counter Stools, White Oak Counter Stool, Chile Stool
By Bertu Furniture
Located in Oak Harbor, OH
Bertu Counter Stools, White Oak Counter Stool, Chile Stool This White Oak Chile Counter Stool is beautifully constructed from solid wood in Ohio, USA. The stool is chunky and modern...
Wood, Oak
$6,300 / item
H 16 in W 58 in D 32 in
Organic Shaped Modern Nesting Coffee Tables by Last Workshop, Walnut
By Last Workshop
Located in Chicago, IL
Organic shaped nesting coffee tables by Last Workshop, 2023 Solid walnut, natural finish Table one: 58" x 32" x 16"H Table two: 46" x 25" x 13.5" If not in stock, current productio...
Hardwood, Walnut
$8,900Sale Price / set|25% Off
H 24.5 in W 39 in D 29 in
Early Year Grey Leather 'LC3' Club Chairs by Le Corbusier for Cassina, Signed
By Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand, Le Corbusier, Cassina
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An incredible pair of early production year (ideal for collectors) 'LC3' club chairs in grey leather, by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand for Cassina, circa 1970...
Chrome
LC3 Grand Modele Armchair by Le Corbusier for Cassina, black leather
By Pierre Jeanneret, Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand Cassina, Cassina, Charlotte Perriand, Le Corbusier
Located in Chicago, IL
LC3 Grand Modele Armchair for Cassina. Black leather and chrome plated steel. Newer production, circa 2010 or later. One of the most iconic chairs, the LC3 was designed in 1928 by L...
Chrome
$3,600Sale Price / set|20% Off
H 28 in W 30 in D 26 in
Pair of Vintage Mid-Century Modern Black Leather Wassily Lounge Chairs for Knoll
By Marcel Breuer, Knoll, Stendig Co.
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pair of Vintage Mid-Century Modern Black leather wassily lounge chairs for Knoll. The Wassily lounge chair was designed by Marcel Breuer in Black full leather. Has flat caps on the e...
Steel, Chrome
Craft Associates Modern Lounge Chair, 2002, the Parallax
By Craft Associates
Located in Oak Harbor, OH
Designer: Laura Trenchard Manufacturer: Craft Associates Modern Furniture Period/Model: Mid-Century Modern Specs: Walnut, Mohair Yardage: 6 yards, 5.5 meters condition Craft Asso...
Mohair, Walnut
$5,137Sale Price|25% Off
H 27.17 in W 22.05 in D 63 in
Vintage Le Corbusier Chaise Longue for Cassina, circa 1960's
By Cassina, Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand Cassina
Located in Vilnius, LT
Vintage Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret, Charlotte Perriand chaise lounge LC4 created in 1928's. Manufacture edition circa 1960's. In natural cow/pony dark brown fur, black leather p...
Chrome
$20,899
H 29.14 in Dm 25.99 in
20th Century Luigi Massoni for Poltrona Frau Dilly Dally Vanitiy Dressing Table
By Poltrona Frau, Luigi Massoni
Located in Turin, Turin
Dressing table model Dilly Dally designed by Luigi Massoni for Poltrona Frau in 1960s. The dressing table is composed of two pieces, one round armchair (which alone measures 74 x 66 ...
Metal
$8,127
H 28.75 in W 30.71 in D 27.17 in
Italian mid-century Brown Armchairs Wassily by Marcel Breuer for Gavina, 1960s
By Gavina, Marcel Breuer
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian mid-century modern Brown leather armchairs Wassily by Marcel Breuer for Gavina, 1960s Pair of armchairs mod. Wassily or B3 in brown leather. The backrest, armrests and seat a...
Steel
$5,231
H 45 in Dm 26 in
Luigi i Murano Glass Suspension Pendant Light by Borek Sipek for Driade, Italy
By B. Sipek, Driade
Located in Lisse, NL
Large in size and stunning design, bouquet of flowers and six light chandelier. This entirely hand-crafted chandelier is another one of our recent statement-piece-finds. This rare a...
Brass
$4,000
H 28.35 in W 30.52 in D 25.4 in
Mid-Century Wassily Chair by Marcel Breuer, Leather & Chrome, 1960s
By Marcel Breuer
Located in Chino Hills, CA
For sale is a genuine mid-century Wassily Chair, a remarkable piece from the iconic designer Marcel Breuer. This chair is a testament to the enduring appeal of mid-century design, sh...
Chrome
$1,850 / item
H 29.73 in W 19.69 in D 19.69 in
Vico Magistretti "122" Chair for Cassina, Cognac Leather, 1967
By Cassina, Vico Magistretti
Located in Lonigo, Veneto
Vico Magistretti "122" chairs for Cassina, black structure and cognac leather, Italy, 1967. The "122" chairs designed by Vico Magistretti in 1967 have a sculptural design, created w...
Leather, Beech, Plywood
The architect and designer Marcel Breuer was one the 20th century’s most influential and innovative adherents of modernism. A member of the Bauhaus faculty, Breuer — like such colleagues as the architects Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and the artists and art theoreticians László Moholy-Nagy and Josef Albers — left Europe in the 1930s to champion the new design philosophy and its practice in the United States.
Born in Hungary, Breuer became a Bauhaus student in 1920 and quickly impressed Gropius, the German school’s founder, with his aptitude for furniture design. His early work was influenced by the minimalist Dutch design movement De Stijl — in particular the work of architect Gerrit Rietveld.
In 1925, while he was head of the Bauhaus furniture workshop, Breuer realized his signature innovation: the use of lightweight tubular-steel frames for chairs, tables and sofas — a technique soon adopted by Mies and others. Breuer’s attention gradually shifted from design to architecture, and, at the urging of Gropius, he joined his mentor in 1937 on the faculty of Harvard and in an architectural practice.
In the 1940s, Breuer opened his own architectural office, and there his style evolved from geometric, glass-walled structures toward a kind of hybrid architecture — seen in numerous Breuer houses in New England — that pairs bases of local fieldstone with sleek, wood-framed modernist upper floors. In his later, larger commissions, Breuer worked chiefly with reinforced concrete and stone, as seen in his best-known design, the brutalist inverted ziggurat built in New York in 1966 as the home of the Whitney Museum of American Art.
Breuer’s most famous furniture pieces are those made of tubular steel, which include the Wassily chair — named after Wassily Kandinsky and recognizable for its leather-strap seating supports — and the caned Cesca chair.
Breuer also made several notable designs in molded plywood, including a chaise and nesting table for the British firm Isokon and a student furniture suite commissioned in 1938 for a dormitory at Bryn Mawr College. Whether in metal or wood, Breuer’s design objects are elegant and adaptable examples of classic modernist design — useful and appropriate in any environment.
Find vintage Marcel Breuer seating, storage cabinets and lighting on 1stDibs.
With entire areas of our homes reserved for “sitting rooms,” the value of quality antique and vintage seating cannot be overstated.
Fortunately, the design of side chairs, armchairs and other lounge furniture — since what were, quite literally, the early perches of our ancestors — has evolved considerably.
Among the earliest standard seating furniture were stools. Egyptian stools, for example, designed for one person with no seat back, were x-shaped and typically folded to be tucked away. These rudimentary chairs informed the design of Greek and Roman stools, all of which were a long way from Sori Yanagi's Butterfly stool or Alvar Aalto's Stool 60. In the 18th century and earlier, seats with backs and armrests were largely reserved for high nobility.
The seating of today is more inclusive but the style and placement of chairs can still make a statement. Antique desk chairs and armchairs designed in the style of Louis XV, which eventually included painted furniture and were often made of rare woods, feature prominently curved legs as well as Chinese themes and varied ornaments. Much like the thrones of fairy tales and the regency, elegant lounges crafted in the Louis XV style convey wealth and prestige. In the kitchen, the dining chair placed at the head of the table is typically reserved for the head of the household or a revered guest.
Of course, with luxurious vintage or antique furnishings, every chair can seem like the best seat in the house. Whether your preference is stretching out on a plush sofa, such as the Serpentine, designed by Vladimir Kagan, or cozying up in a vintage wingback chair, there is likely to be a comfy classic or contemporary gem for you on 1stDibs.
With respect to the latest obsessions in design, cane seating has been cropping up everywhere, from sleek armchairs to lounge chairs, while bouclé fabric, a staple of modern furniture design, can be seen in mid-century modern, Scandinavian modern and Hollywood Regency furniture styles.
Admirers of the sophisticated craftsmanship and dark woods frequently associated with mid-century modern seating can find timeless furnishings in our expansive collection of lounge chairs, dining chairs and other items — whether they’re vintage editions or alluring official reproductions of iconic designs from the likes of Hans Wegner or from Charles and Ray Eames. Shop our inventory of Egg chairs, designed in 1958 by Arne Jacobsen, the Florence Knoll lounge chair and more.
No matter your style, the collection of unique chairs, sofas and other seating on 1stDibs is surely worthy of a standing ovation.