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About...
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe began his career in architecture in Berlin, working as an architect first in the studio of Bruno Paul and then, like Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius, Peter Behrens.
In the mid-1920's, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe began to create Classic Design Furniture, pieces that he conceived and created for particular interiors. Bauhaus Armchairs: Le Corbusier, Mies Van Der Rohe, Charles Eames...
In 1927, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe met Lilly Reich, a Bauhaus alumnus who collaborated with Mies on his first versions of a cantilevered chair with a tubular steel frame.
Two years later, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich designed what is perhaps his most famous creation. Created for the German Pavilion at the Barcelona International Exhibition, the Pavilion chair (Barcelona Chair and Barcelona Ottomann) was intended as a modern throne...
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In 1938, Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe emigrated from Europe and moved to Chicago. Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe was devoted to promoting the Modernist style of architecture in the U.S.
We can see the influence of architect Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe in the modern city, with its towers of glass and steel. Design Armchairs - Inter Design Italia
Equally significant, if smaller in scale, is Mies' daring design furniture, pieces that exhibit an unerring sense of proportion, as well as minimalist forms and exquisitely refined details.
In fact, his Barcelona Chair and Barcelona Ottomann have been called architecture in miniature exercises in structure and materials that achieve an extraordinary visual harmony as autonomous pieces or in relation to the interiors for which they were originally designed.
Classic Design Furniture - Bauhaus Armchairs - Bauhaus Chairs: Le Corbusier, Mies Van Der Rohe, Charles Eames
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