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When it comes to fresh furniture design, perhaps no other name obtain a deep sense of admiration more than that of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Considered as one of the initiator of Modern Movement in the early 20th century, the German architect Mies van der Rohe designed numerous furnishings to set off the interiors of his structures. These designs by Mies van der Rohe are well-known for one the early models of modern furniture, as they were integrated with the modernist genre normaly found in modern architecture. One of these endless Mies van der Rohe styles is the Barcelona Chair.

Perhaps Mies van der Rohe’s most accepted furniture design, the Barcelona Chair is a unfussy modernist chair consisting of a light steel border and two square cushions which works as the chair’s seat and backrest. The chair is showpiece of the Barcelona furniture group, and was made by Mies van der Rohe for the German Pavilion presentation building in Barcelona, Spain in 1929. Mies van der Rohe was also said to have [team up|worked together} with German interior designer and longtime friend Lilly Reich during the design procedure for the Barcelona Chair.

Mies van der Rohe was loved of mixing both the conventional and modern in his furnishings, and the Barcelona Chair was no exclusion to this. The chair’s X-shaped frame is said to be stimulated by the ancient Egyptian folding chair, and is created from bolted pieces of chrome-plated steel. Barcelona chairs created after the 1950s replaced the chrome-plated steel with stainless steel, which provided the framework a more beautiful form. The cushions for now are enclosed in either ivory-white pigskin or black leather and are fastene to the frame all through a system of discreetly-placed press studs.

When the German Pavilion was exposed during the 1929 International Expo, reviewer called the Barcelona Chair “a design worthy of kings”. This, accidentally, was quite appropriate as the chair’s price total to nearly $6, 281, which is a majestic sum even to present standards. These days reproductions of the Barcelona Chair are readily obtainable some high-end pieces can still get about $2,000.

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