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

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

With few exceptions, Wright's pieces still look good�not elegant or sophisticated like a Barcelona chair, but pleasing and "user friendly."

From Time Magazine Archive

For the Barcelona chair he used chrome-plated stainless steel, covered the cushions with sumptuous kid leather.

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.

From Time Magazine Archive