Wassily Joins the Family

The cabin was built in the early ‘50’s, so as often as we can, we hope to be able to use mid-century modern furnishings in it. It is one of the fun aspects of the place, to try and decipher what influenced our builder, and then to try and imagine what the earliest furnishings looked like.

Our friend Barbara visited this weekend, and offered us this Wassily chair, which we sincerely appreciate. Here is a description of the chair from an unsourced commercial site…

Marcel Breuer designed the Wassily Chair in 1925-26 while he was working at the Bauhaus in Germany. The Wassily Chair was not designed for the non-objective painter Wassily Kandinsky, despite popular belief; Breuer's design was inspired in part by the curved tubular steel handlebars on his Adler bicycle. Kandinsky had admired the completed design, and Breuer made an additional copy for Kandinsky's personal quarters. Chrome plated steel tube frame. Saddle leather seat/back/arms.

Also, Mary gave me this fire pit over the holidays. When I considered these things over the last few years, I imagined that you put a pile of firewood in them and set the blaze, but that is really not the case…you can’t load ‘em up and start an inferno. But I bought one of those fake logs made out of sawdust and wax, and that made for quite a cozy little situation out there during my initial use of the fire pit - looking forward to more of this.