Barcelona Chair, Barcelona Stool - Mies Van Der Rohe

Barcelona Chair: side view, belt in thick rump leather and cushion corner details.

Barcelona Chair and Barcelona Stool
des. Mies Van Der Rohe,1929

THE PROJECT
The Barcelona Chair was designed by Mies Van Der Rohe for the 1929 Barcelona Universal Exposition, to seat the Spanish royal family while they oversaw the opening ceremonies.
With a shape seemingly derived from "sella curulis romana", the Barcelona Chair is a minimalist icon of the International Movement, heir to the Bauhaus: "less is more" was, in fact, Mies Van Der Rohe's motto.
Its impact on the world of furniture has been (and continues to be) enormous: "it is the Platonic ideal of the armchair" (Tom Wolfe: From Bauhaus to Our House).


OFFER DESCRIPTION
The Barcelona armchair and ottoman have a chrome-plated flat drawn structure, polyurethane padding and leather (or fabric) upholstery consisting of 40 panels for the armchair and 16 for the ottoman, cut and sewn by hand with button quilting.