Supreme x Knoll Wassily Chair (Leopard)
Supreme vs. Original
Supreme version
About the original
The Knoll Wassily Chair is a tubular-steel-and-leather lounge chair designed by Marcel Breuer at the Bauhaus Dessau in 1925, inspired by the bent steel tubes of his Adler bicycle frame. Originally called the Model B3, it was renamed decades later after painter Wassily Kandinsky admired the first prototype. Knoll has been the authorized manufacturer since 1968, producing each chair from seamless chrome-plated tubular steel with leather or canvas seat and back slings. The FW19 Supreme edition substitutes Edelman leopard-print hide for the standard leather, with the box logo embossed on the seat, and retailed at $2,998, roughly $780 below Knoll's $3,778 list price for the production Wassily.
About Knoll
Knoll is an American furniture company founded in 1938 by Hans Knoll in New York City, later run alongside his wife and designer Florence Knoll. The company became a central force in mid-century modern design, producing licensed editions of the Barcelona Chair by Mies van der Rohe, the Wassily Chair by Marcel Breuer, and the Tulip and Womb Chairs by Eero Saarinen. Knoll's textile division, founded in 1947, commissioned work from Anni Albers and Alexander Girard. The company merged with MillerKnoll in 2021. Supreme has collaborated with Knoll on branded furniture pieces.
