Gavina - Marcel Breuer - Armchair - Wassily Chair - Leather, Steel

In 1962 Dino Gavina, an Italian entrepreneur in the design sector, met Marcel Breuer in New York and convinced him to re-edit and realize his projects from the 1920s.
After the sale of Gavina to the American Knoll in 1968 and the closure of the Bolognese brand, several products from the Gavina collection were sold under the Knoll brand;
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Considering that it is more than 50 years old, the armchair is in good used condition.
The frame is solid and sturdy and has been carefully cleaned and polished.
The leather is totally intact with no cuts or unstitched parts. As shown in the photos, it has a discolouration of the black and some signs of use in the areas of greatest use. The skin was carefully cleansed and treated with nourishing products.
This example has a Gavina label glued to one of the tubulars.
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Dimensions 72h 79l 72d cm
(511A) Furniture Fair
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The Wassily Chair, also known as the Model B3 chair, was designed by Marcel Breuer. At the time of 1925 he was director of the wood workshop at the Bauhaus in Dessau.
This chair was revolutionary in its use of materials (eisengarn[and bent nickel-plated steel tubes] and production methods. After experiencing the solidity of the steel tube, used for the construction of the Adler bicycle, Breuer thought of using the steel tubes to build furniture[. For the creation of the chair Breuer had turned to Adler, but the company did not accept, so he turned to the Mannesmann company which, since 1885-86, had been working steel tubes with innovative techniques. Then he had the individual elements he needed folded and built the first prototype. In the same year Le Corbusier presented a steel tube staircase "built like the frame of a bicycle" at the Exhibition of Decorative Arts in Paris. The position of the seat and backrest of the B 3 attest to the influence of Gerrit Rietveld's red and blue chair (Rood-blauwe stoel) .
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The B 3 chair, initially produced by Standard Möbel in Berlin, became a mass product in the sixties after Dino Gavina, after having met the Hungarian designer in New York, convinced him to re-edit the tubular chair in 1962. When Gavina learned that Kandinsky had requested that the first example be destined for the living room of his apartment, he decided to produce it under the name Wassily. In 1968 Knoll of New York bought Gavina Spa of Bologna, including the production of the chair, which is still in production.
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Knoll International is an American company that is a world leader in the field of industrial design. Founded in 1938 by Hans and Florence Knoll, it produces furnishing items extremely appreciated for their modern, refined and refined style.
The brand continues to be faithful to the philosophy of the Bauhaus movement, which conceived modern design as an essential principle to connect people to their lives, their work, their world.
According to this idea, therefore, the furnishing accessories had to be aesthetically important but at the same time practical and functional and did not have to compete with the surrounding space, but merge with it as integral parts of a single large environment.
The company creates furnishing objects for homes and offices; It is precisely thanks to its founder that the professional figure of the interior designer and the concept of the modern office were traced. The international success of the brand is dictated by a constant dedication to design and a curious interest in technological developments, with particular attention to the needs of modern man.
Many of his cult pieces such as the Saarineen Tulip Table and the Barcelona Armchair are exhibited in the main international design museums.
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