Hungarian-born US architect and designer. He studied and taught at the
Bauhaus school in Germany. His tubular steel chair, known as the Wassily chair (1925), was the first of its kind. He moved to England, then to the USA, where he was in partnership with Walter
Gropius (193740). His buildings show an affinity with natural materials, as exemplified in the Bijenkorf, Rotterdam, the Netherlands (with Elzas; 1953).
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