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Marcel Breuer

Pécs 1902 – 1981 New York

Club armchair – Model: B 3 – the so-called Wassily- Armchair. 1925 / execution 1930/31

Steel tubing, nickel-plated; blue canvas – manufacturer: Thonet Frères, Paris. 73,5 × 77 × 68 cm (28 ⅞ × 30 ⅜ × 26 ¾ in.).
This picture shows the following artwork: Marcel Breuer. Club armchair – Model: B 3 – the so-called Wassily- Armchair. 1925 / execution 1930/31.

Estimate:

EUR 12,000

 

- 15,000

USD 13,500

 

- 16,900

Sold for:

15,000 EUR (incl. premium)

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Information

Steel tubing, nickel-plated; blue canvas – manufacturer: Thonet Frères, Paris. 73,5 × 77 × 68 cm (28 ⅞ × 30 ⅜ × 26 ¾ in.). Original cover with signs of age.

Presumably for the Casino in Saint-Jean-de-Luz near Biarritz (from 1929 provided by Robert Mallet-Stevens) / Private Collection, France (1990–1997) / Private Collection, Vienna (since 1997)

Auction: Twentieth Century Decorative Arts. Genf, Christie‘s, 11.11.1990, cat.-no. 51, p. 54f. / Auction: The Chair. London, Christie‘s, 29.10.1997, cat.-no. 62, p. 74f

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