The Barcelona Chairknoll.comFor the legs of this lounger, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe poeticized a simple X-shaped form, elongating the base so that the cantilevered seat appears to hover in the air. But why would a German architect name his chair after a Catalonian city? Mies debuted the design in the German Pavilion at the 1929 Barcelona Exposition, where King Alfonso XIII of Spain presided over the opening ceremony. “In those circumstances, you just couldn’t use a kitchen chair,” he later recalled. By placing a pair...

Source: Wall Street Journal May 08, 2018 12:45 UTC