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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Example Sentences

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chair decorates every corporate lobby.

From The Guardian

The frame of the Barcelona chair, for example, originally nine steel components bolted together, was designed as a seamless piece of stainless steel, and cowhide instead of pigskin was used for seat and back coverings.

From New York Times

The Barcelona chair, the Cape Cod belt and six more timeless items with a sense of place—no updates required.

From The Wall Street Journal

Johnson had family money, and hired Mies van der Rohe to kit out his apartment with a rosewood chest, a spare tea table, and a camel-colored Barcelona chair; Barr, who had to work for a living, ordered entirely passable knockoffs from Ypsilanti, Mich. This show is too small for its subject, but if you’re into Modernist revivals, you’ll do better here than at the ghastly new restaurant in Johnson’s old Four Seasons.

From New York Times

Johnson, who had family money, hired Mies and his wife, Lilly Reich, a designer and architect, to strip down his apartment, and to kit it out with a rosewood chest, a spare tea table, and a camel-colored Barcelona chair.

From New York Times