A Brief History Of The Wassily Chair An Icon Of Modernism Whose History Dates Back To The 1920S
With an elegant form traced in gleaming steel, a back and arms that seem to float in space, and its ability to hold somebody on its canvas seat without touching the metal framework, the Wassily Chair looks like something out of the Information Age rather than the Jazz Age. Some people think the Wassily Chair came out of the mid-20th century’s era of Modernism since that’s when it was mass-produced and spread to the American suburbs....