Wassily

As soon as that sleepy, heavy quiet came which even now falls like a hot feather comforter on a Russian house after dinner, David went, I following him with a beating heart, into the servants 'hall and called Wassily out.

Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science Volume 17, No. 101, May, 1876 Various

Long associated with the cool lines and even cooler materials of high modernism -- epitomized by Marcel Breuer's tubular-steel "Wassily" chair (mid-1920s), or Gropius's glass-and-concrete Bauhaus building in Dessau (1926) -- the Bauhaus, as the show's title suggests, was in fact a clearing house of every form of experimentation.

Exquisite Body of Wax Works 2009

This installation of highlights from the Museum's modern and contemporary design collection from 1900 to the present features forty-six objects, including Charles Rennie Mackintosh's hand-crafted oak, tile, and glass washstand (1904); Marcel Breuer's iconic modernist "Wassily" chair (1927); a 1985 Formica "Ivory" table by Italian designer Ettore Sottsass; and architect Zaha Hadid's 2006 "Gyre" lounge chair, made of polyester resin and lacquer.

NYC.com's Exclusive New York City Event Calendar : Art 2010

This installation of highlights from the Museum's modern and contemporary design collection from 1900 to the present features forty-six objects, including Charles Rennie Mackintosh's hand-crafted oak, tile, and glass washstand (1904); Marcel Breuer's iconic modernist "Wassily" chair (1927); a 1985 Formica "Ivory" table by Italian designer Ettore Sottsass; and architect Zaha Hadid's 2006 "Gyre" lounge chair, made of polyester resin and lacquer.

NYC.com's Exclusive New York City Event Calendar : Art 2010

This installation of highlights from the Museum's modern and contemporary design collection from 1900 to the present features forty-six objects, including Charles Rennie Mackintosh's hand-crafted oak, tile, and glass washstand (1904); Marcel Breuer's iconic modernist "Wassily" chair (1927); a 1985 Formica "Ivory" table by Italian designer Ettore Sottsass; and architect Zaha Hadid's 2006 "Gyre" lounge chair, made of polyester resin and lacquer.

NYC.com's Exclusive New York City Event Calendar : Art 2010

Rennie Mackintosh's hand-crafted oak, tile, and glass washstand (1904); Marcel Breuer's iconic modernist "Wassily" chair (1927); a 1985 Formica "Ivory" table by Italian designer Ettore

NYC.com's Exclusive New York City Event Calendar : Art 2010

Like Marcel Breuer's seminal "Wassily" chair, designed at the Bauhaus only a couple years before, the B301 uses tubular steel as a frame, with fabric stretched and cantilevered to form a comfortable non-upholstered chair.

Apartment Therapy Main 2009

In the 1950s, I was inspired also by the work of Wassily Kandinsky: he wanted to create an art of spiritual renewal, believing that humans have lost touch with spirituality, being concerned with material things.

Lia Petridis Maiello: 'I Read, I Think, I Paint' Lia Petridis Maiello 2011

In the 1950s, I was inspired also by the work of Wassily Kandinsky: he wanted to create an art of spiritual renewal, believing that humans have lost touch with spirituality, being concerned with material things.

Lia Petridis Maiello: 'I Read, I Think, I Paint' Lia Petridis Maiello 2011

Built on the innovations of Wassily Kandinsky, the Suprematism of Malevich 1878-1935 laid the groundwork, in 1915, for Russian Constructivism and the beautifully severe Neoplasticism of Piet Mondrian.

Intersecting Planes and Opposing Angles Lance Esplund 2011