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Rattan MR Chair by Mies Van Der Rohe, Rare Elegant Tecta Variant

Name: Rattan MR Chair by Mies Van Der Rohe, Rare Elegant Tecta Variant
Brand: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Price: 1572.5 USD
Availability: InStock

About the Item

Iconic Mid-Century Modern cantilever MR Chair by Mies Van Der Rohe in chromed bent tube steel and stunning original rattan weave. This beautiful example is the rare and desirable Tecta edition. It features a more sophisticated weave that avoids the clumpy wooden cross-beam at the front of the seat, which is visible on the more common versions of this chair. References: Gary Tinterow et al. The Metropolitan Museum of Art. Vol. 8, Modern Europe. New York, 1987, p. 131, colorpl. 110. Magdalena Droste in Experiment Bauhaus. Ed. Magdalena Droste and Jeannine Fiedler. Exh. cat., Bauhaus Dessau. Berlin, 1988, pp. 118–19, no. 115, ill. Barbara Burn, ed. Masterpieces of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. New York, 1993, p. 316, ill. (color). Grace Glueck. "Design Review: When Americans Awoke to Modern Styles." New York Times (May 19, 2000), p. E32. Christiane Lange. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe & Lilly Reich: Furniture and Interiors. Exh. cat., Lange House. Ostfildern, 2006, p. 151. Otakar Máčel. "The Metal Furniture by Mies van der Rohe: Manufacturers and Imitations, 1927–38." Mies and Modern Living: Interiors, Furniture, Photography. Ed. Helmut Reuter and Birgit Schulte. Ostfildern, 2008, pp. 99–100, figs. 93, 105. Sandra Dachs, Patricia de Muga, and Laura Garcia Hintze, ed. Mies van der Rohe: Objects and Furniture Design. Barcelona, 2010, p. 26, ill. (color) pp. 29–30, 120.

Creator:

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (Designer),Tecta (Manufacturer)

Dimensions:

Height: 33.86 in (86 cm)Width: 18.9 in (48 cm)Depth: 26.38 in (67 cm)Seat Height: 17.33 in (44 cm)

Style:

Bauhaus (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Chrome,Metal,Rattan,Steel

Place of Origin:

Germany

Period:

Mid-20th Century

Date of Manufacture:

1970s

Condition:

Few signs of wear, less than expected for age.

Seller Location:

Grand Cayman, KY

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU5587230380492

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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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