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

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

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

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