Barcelona Chair - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Modern Classic Bauhaus Design Furniture

For some, the couch by Mies van der Rohe, that he designed for the New York City apartment of Philip Johnson, is his prettiest and most serene formal furniture. Nothing more than a square frame with round tubular steel legs, a leather fashionable upholstery without frills, and a round leather headrest. The inimitable piece of a true master , who during his life centered his thinking to the masses, rhythms and balance. Everything is made carefully, solid with spacious elegance. Elementary contrasts give the simple form excitement. The thick part is against the thin legs, its white material against the hard part, its metallic glossiness against the non shiny surface of the leather. These contrasting forms of the 20s and 30s mark a clean break from the unified grid style from the postwar era, in which everything was thrown across the rectangular strips.

The ten most important designers were Marcel Breuer, Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, Charles and Ray Eames, Eileen Gray, Walter Gropius, Arne Jacobsen, Alvar Aalto, Josef Hoffmann and Philippe Starck. Furniture design is on the contrary a pronounced elite field of handwork. What a designer draws is partly produced a million times and can be enjoyed by many people. Especially the modern classic design.
If they are not always economically very successful, and they are still so for a long time or after a long time are again available on the market, they will affect the style of others, who live on them. The majority of the outstanding furniture designers were the architects Mies van der Rohe, Alvar Aalto, Arne Jacobsen, Eero Saarinen, Frank Lloyd Wright, Gerrit Rietveld, Isamu Noguchi, Mart Stam, and Le Corbusier. Others came from the design to architecture like Eileen Gray, Marcel Breuer, Egon Eiermann, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Paul Kjaerholm, Michele de Lucchi, Harry Bertoia, Otto Blümel, Achille Castiglioni, Egon Eiermann, George Nelson, Richard Sapper, The Shakers, Michael Thonet, or Philippe Starck Outstanding furniture designers who have nothing to do with the architecture, are more likely to be in minority and most likely still to be found in the lamp design, like for example Wilhelm Wagenfeld. On the one hand an ever-advancing specialization takes place, which in view of technological development is also necessary. On the other hand, the tendency toward specialization is also an aberration. Michelangelo was not only an artist and a sculptor, also a designer, architect, poet, clothes designer and even poet. He created superbly in all areas. Perhaps that is among others the characteristics of the classical designers, their universality. The modern classic furniture collection is worldwide and unique.

Undoubtedly the most influential body of modern design classics is demonstrated by the Museum of Modern Art in New York. This institution (called Moma for short) has built up over the time a prestigious collection. Every object that is represented there, has achieved the highest honour that can be achieved for design in this world. In the Museum of Modern Art you will find the Armchair LC2, and LC3,the Easy Chair LC1, the Lounger LC4 and the Wassily Chair, the Office Revolving Chair of the Aluminium Group Serie Alu Chair EA 108, the Ant Chair, the Noguchi Coffee Table, the Eileen Gray Side Table or Adjustable Table, the Day Bed, the Non Conformist Chair, the Sofa Lota, the Barcelona Chair, the Brno Chair and Cesca Chair, the Cantilever Chair of Mart Stam S33, and also the Diamond Lounge Chair, the Hill House Chair, the Willow 1, the Argyle Chair,the Coat Rack Nymphenburg,the Dining Table Allen 605, the Barrel Chair, the Wooden Chair Robie House 1, the Paimio Armchair No.41, the Trolly 901, the Lounge Chair 43, the Three Legged Stool Model 60, the Wire Chair, the Chair Asymmetric Chaise, the Floor Lamp Arco, the Taccia Lamp, the Stool Mezzadro, the Snoopy Table Lamp, the Tulip Chair or the Tulip Table, the Cantilever Cesca Chair S32, the Laccio Table, the Costes Chair, the Lounger PK24, the Marshmallow Sofa, the Nelson Bank, the Cantilever B42, the Barcelona Day Bed, the Bookcase S44, the worlds famous Lounge Chair of Charles Eames, the Stackable Chair 3107 Serie 7, the Armchair Red and Blue, the Wooden Chair Cane Model 214, the Zig Zag Chair, the Table with Wheels, the Armchair T51, the Sofa T51, the Lounge Chair La Chaise and many other design classics like the Sofa LC3, the Soft Pad Office Chair EA208, the Bauhaus Revolving Office Chair EA108, the Table LC6, the Tolomeo Lamp, the Floor Lamp Tolomeo Mega, the Wagenfeld Lamp WA24, the Wagenfeld Lamp WG24, the Wagenfeld Desk Lamp, the Tube Light Floor Lamp, the Tizio Desk Lamp, the Office Alu Chair EA117, EA119, but also the Panton Chair of Verner Panton.

Here you will find the most outstanding Bauhaus armchairs, Bauhaus tables, Bauhaus chairs, Bauhaus loungers, all design classics, furniture designs, and furniture classics of the 20th Century. If Bauhaus furniture, design furniture, design classics or industry design furniture. Have an exclusive and unique history in furniture design.

The furniture of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is one of the most famous Bauhaus architects and designers. His most famous Bauhaus furniture classics are the Barcelona Chair, but also the Barcelona Day Bed, the Barcelona Table, the Cantilever Chair B42, the Lounge Chair 242 or the Side Table is among his largest design projects.

The following are the most famous classical furniture of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.