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Mies van der Rohe Chaise Ludwig Model 242 for Knoll International

Name: Mies van der Rohe Chaise Ludwig Model 242 for Knoll International
Brand: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Price: 5500 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

This vintage chaise was designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1927 as part of his contribution to the Weissenhof exhibit in Stuttgart, Germany. The MR Collection represents some of his earliest steel furniture designs. Made of tubular chromed steel and leather, this iconic piece was edited by Knoll International in the 70s. As a company that produced many of the most famous and iconic furniture designs of the 20th century, Knoll was a chief influence in the rise of modern design in the United States. Their work would help change the face of the American home and office. The Bauhaus Master Marcel Breuer influenced Ludwig Mies van der Rohe's use of tubular steel. This was apparent in his design of the MR Adjustable Chaise Lounge that we propose in “Sabrina,” white leather. Forms were thought to be modern derivatives of 19th-century Iron Rocking Chairs. Inspired by the possibilities of this material, Mies incorporated chrome tubular steel in furniture design, mixing it with traditional fabrics like for this vintage piece in leather. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was a German-American architect, academic, and interior designer. Along with Alvar Aalto, Le Corbusier, Walter Gropius, and Frank Lloyd Wright, he is regarded as one of the pioneers of modernist architecture. Mies’s famed dictum “less is more” grew from his belief that architecture guides and expresses the spirit of the times. He envisioned the 20th century as open-minded, logical, transparent, and liberated by technology. Pieces designed by Mies and Reich, such as the MR Chaise Lounge, deliver maximum comfort and support from a minimum of materials: their “lavishness” derives from the precision with which they are engineered and constructed. It is rare to find this chair with its head cushion.

Creator:

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (Designer)

Dimensions:

Height: 37 in (93.98 cm)Width: 22 in (55.88 cm)Depth: 62 in (157.48 cm)Seat Height: 13 in (33.02 cm)

Style:

Mid-Century Modern (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Chrome,Leather

Place of Origin:

United States

Period:

1970-1979

Date of Manufacture:

1970

Condition:

Wear consistent with age and use. The chrome is in excellent shape. The leather shows a little bit of its age without showing any tears. The foam is still in good condition.

Seller Location:

Pasadena, CA

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU825835318882

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Architect, furniture designer and educator, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was a central figure in the advancement and promotion of modernist design and architectural theory and practice. Like Frank Lloyd Wright and Le Corbusier, he was a hugely influential presence in the field, who shaped the course of 20th-century architecture both through his buildings and his teaching of rationalist design principles.

Born in the medieval German city of Aachen, Mies found an interest in architecture as a boy while working for his father, a master stonemason. He had no formal education as an architect, but learned his skills as an apprentice to the designer Bruno Paul, and as a staffer in the office the proto-modernist architect and designer Peter Behrens. Following World War I, Mies rose to prominence in his field amid the liberal atmosphere of the Weimar Republic. His reputation was secured by his work on the German Pavilion at the 1929 International Exposition in Barcelona (commonly referred to as the Barcelona Pavilion) — which Mies codesigned with Lilly Reich, his creative and romantic partner — a radically simple, poetic, open-plan building pared down to its architectural essentials. Mies would go on to direct the Bauhaus from 1930 until 1933, when Nazi-government interference forced the closure of the progressive art and design school. Later that decade, he made his way to Chicago, where he remained for the rest of his career as a practicing architect and a dean of the Illinois Institute of Technology.

Mies’s famed dictum “less is more” grew from his belief that architecture both guides and expresses the spirit of the times, and he envisioned the 20th century as open-minded, logical, transparent and liberated by technology. His best-known buildings — residences such as the Villa Tugendhat in Czechoslovakia and the Farnsworth House in rural Illinois; skyscrapers like the 860–880 Lake Shore Drive apartment towers in Chicago and the Seagram Building in New York — reflect that philosophy. As do the most famous furniture designs authored by him or codesigned with Reich.

Pieces designed by Mies and Reich such as the Barcelona chair (the authorized version is produced by Knoll today), stools and daybed, or the cantilevered Brno chairs, deliver a maximum of comfort and support from a minimum of materials: their “lavishness” derives from the precision with which they are engineered and constructed. For the collector, the allure of Mies’s furniture is at once practical and idealistic. Useful and functional, his works embody the highest aspirations of modernism.

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