Mies Van Der RoheGerman architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) is without doubt one of the pioneering masters of Modern architecture: The contemporary cityscape betrays his influence at every turn. Equally significant, though smaller in scale, are his adventures in furniture design. Like any good architect, Mies knew that architecture and furniture inevitably slip into dialogue and affect one another (he brought his knowledge of recent industrial technologies to bear on many of the chairs and tables he produced) and consequently, his earliest designs, beginning in the mid-1920s, were conceived for specific interiors. At first furniture design seemed more daunting than architecture: "There are endless possibilities and many problems--the chair has to be light, it has to be strong, it has to be comfortable. It is almost easier to build a skyscraper than a chair," he once declared. But Mies soon found novel ways to marry traditional luxurious fabrics and leathers with contemporary chrome frames, while effecting a distinct separation between the supporting structure and the supported surfaces. Today his Modern furniture pieces like the Barcelona chair, table, ottoman and day bed and the Bruno chair are acclaimed popular classics. |
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INTRODUCTION P | 9 |
CHAIR MR10 AND ARMCHAIR MR20 P | 26 |
STOOL MR1 P | 42 |
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1930 Materials archi architects architecture ARMCHAIR MR20 back Dimensions BARCELONA CHAIR BARCELONA CHAIR MR90 BARCELONA PAVILION BARCELONA STOOL 253 BARCELONA TABLES Behrens BRNO CHAIR MR50 cantilever chairs Chair MR10 CHAISE LONGUE Chicago chrome-finish tubular steel cm Collaborator Lilly cm Gauge cm seat height Collaborator Lilly Reich color-coated steel construction Crous Apartment DESK WITH DRAWERS Dimensions 73 Editorial Gustavo Gili EXTENDING DINING TABLE fabric or leather façade Farnsworth House flat Gauge of frame Hilberseimer Knoll Lake Shore Drive LANGE HOUSE leather Dimensions legs Ludwig Mies Mies designed Modern Art MR10 for children Museum of Modern nickel-coated or color-coated Peter Behrens Philip Johnson Rohe Rosewood veneer Dimensions Schinkel Seagram Building Seat and back Section of frame space spatial steel frame TABLE MR130 TABLE MR515 Table top Toronto-Dominion Centre tower blocks TUGENDHAT CHAIR TUGENDHAT COFFEE TABLE TUGENDHAT HOUSE 1930 ture UPHOLSTERED OTTOMAN veneered wood Walter Gropius Werner Blaser wood Dimensions York