The Wassily Chair (1925),originally knows as the B3 chair; the first bent tubular steel chairs, is a case in point. Created for another pioneering genius, Wassily Kandinsky, the father of abstract painting, the chair os a daring and fresh as Kandinsky's canvases and remains an astonishing work in itself. Its strong, spare lines express all the industrial heroism and engineering inventiveness of the "new architecture" reducing the basic design of the heavy club armchair to a light,open frame.