Germany - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
(1886-1969)
From 1908 to1912 he worked as an employee of the industrial
architect Behrens; his first designs for skyscrapers made of steel and glass
date from this era. His steel frame and glass wall buildings (Seagram Building,
New York, 1950s; Berlin National Gallery, 1960s) are among the major works
of modern architecture.
Between 1930 and 1933 he was director of the Bauhaus in
Weimar. His furniture designs - without any "trivial decoration"
were a by-product of building contracts. The work carried out for the Weißenhofsiedlung
(1927) project in Stuttgart, which he directed, made a lasting impression,
as did the German Pavilion for the world exhibition in Barcelona which was
designed and furnished by him.
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Mies van der Rohe designed this free-swinging chair for
the Werkbund exhibition in Stuttgart in 1927. It was also called "Weißenhof
Chair".
© Quittenbaum München, Modernes Design
- Kunsthandwerk nach 1945, 9th June 01'
Mies van der Rohe's most famous lounge chair, designed
in 1929 for the world exhibition in Barcelona and available today as a re-issue.
© Christies London, The Chair, 29th October
97'
