The Financial Times Calls the Wassily Armchair for Knoll a "First Class Seat"

In a June 23, 2012 article, The Financial Times praises the Wassily armchair, designed by Marcel Breuer for Knoll, for defining "the landscape of design."

Deyan Sudjic, director of the Design Museum in London, writes, "It used to be possible to tell the story of design through a sequence of chairs."

Sudjic continues, "Marcel Breuer saw the creative possibilities of tubular steel. The story goes that, while cycling, he looked down at his handlebars and realized that the same material could be used for furniture. The result was the Wassily armchair, designed for his friend, the painter Wassily Kandinsky."

A chair like the Wassily armchair is contemporary even today. "Chairs last for so much longer than mobile phones or laptops or washing machines. And not just physically; the idea behind a chair stays relevant too."

"We are going to go on sitting in [chairs], and using them to say something about the look of our homes, and about who we think we are," Sudjic concludes.