Breuer’s groundbreaking use of tubular steel was first seen on the Wassily Chair, which he developed in 1925. According to Otero, his work was inspired by the ideals of the Bauhaus school ...

The other is the B3 armchair, created the year before; it came to be known as the Wassily Chair because the painter Wassily Kandinsky, also on the Bauhaus faculty, admired and owned one.

think Eames chairs, Togo sofas and Wassily chairs. Named after the Russian painter and art theorist Wassily Kandinsky, the chair (originally titled Model B3) was designed in the mid-1920s by ...