Barcelona chair

American  

Trademark.

1. a wide, armless chair designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for the International Exposition in Barcelona, Spain, in 1929, having leather-covered cushions on a double X -shaped frame of gently curved bars of stainless steel, the longer bars of each X forming the front legs and back, the shorter bars forming the seat and rear legs.

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Barcelona chair

Suits, gowns and coats hung in the back of the single room, where a Mies van der Rohe Barcelona chair, bought secondhand decades ago, held neatly folded clothes.

From New York Times ● Jun. 28, 2017

The black Barcelona chair at the Chelsea outpost was “a little cold.”

From New York Times ● Apr. 22, 2015

Classic Modernist furniture, including the perennial Barcelona chair that Mies designed in 1929, is back once more as retro chic.

From Time Magazine Archive

In Berlin, Mies van der Rohe first developed the cantilever metal chair, went on to produce the famed "Barcelona" chair, designed for his sumptuous German Pavilion at Barcelona's 1929 International Exposition.

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The big leather-and-steel Barcelona chair remains a popular modern icon.

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