To continue our Bauhaus 100 series, here's a look at 10 of the most influential pieces of furniture created by Bauhaus designers, from Marcel Breuer's bicycle-inspired Wassily Chair to Josef Hartwig's minimal chess set.
Known for developing a distinctive, modern style built on the principle of simplicity, teachers and students from the Bauhaus school designed some of the 20th century's most iconic pieces of furniture.
Bauhaus furniture was designed to be functional above all other qualities. Stripped down to their basic elements, fundamental components like tabletops or legs were typically reduced to simple geometric forms.
Bauhaus designers wanted to create aesthetically pleasing objects, but also wanted their products to be available to a mass public ? the simple designs of each furniture piece made it easier to produce them efficiently. Modern industrial techniques also made certain materials more readily available, such as steel, glass, plywood and plastic. Such materials were seen as unconventional for use in furniture making at the time, but facilitated mass production and promoted the Bauhaus' spirit of practicality.
Here are 10 of the most iconic pieces of Bauhaus furniture and homeware:

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Wassily Chair by Marcel Breuer
The Wassily Chair, also known as the Model B3 chair, was designed by Hungarian-born modernist architect and furniture designer Breuer between 1925-1926.
Breuer was inspired to create the chair while riding his bicycle ? h...