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The Barcelona chair is a chair designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich, [1] [2] for the German Pavilion at the International Exposition of 1929, hosted by Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. The chair was first used in Villa Tugendhat , a private residence, designed by Mies in Brno ( Czech Republic ).
For the Barcelona Pavilion, that methodology spawned, among other furnishings, the Barcelona chair, a lounge seat that’s endured as a design icon for almost a century.
He introduced the chair with Danish manufacturer Carl Hansen & Søn, whose craftsmen perfected the 100 steps it takes to make, including the weaving of 395 feet of paper cord for its seat.
The Tugendhat chair (model number MR70) is a modernist cantilever chair designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in collaboration with Lilly Reich 1929–1930 for the Tugendhat House in Brno, Czechoslovakia. In appearance, the Tugendhat chair is somewhat of a hybrid of van der Rohe and Reich's 1929 Barcelona chair and 1929–1930 Brno chair.
Lilly Reich (16 June 1885 – 14 December 1947) was a German designer of textiles, furniture, interiors, and exhibition spaces. She was a close collaborator with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for more than ten years during the Weimar period from 1925 until his emigration to the U.S. in 1938.
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