It seems logical that when faced with the task of designing a chair for a king and queen, one might feel a little pressure to create a masterpiece. Architect and designer Ludwig Mies van der Rohe did ...

Though they were built for two very different purposes and exist nearly 1,000 miles apart, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion in Spain and Villa Tugendhat in Brno, Czechia, bear striking ...

Now that the weather gods are finally smiling on Chicago, downtown office workers are plopping their hindquarters on comfortable, but not entirely faithful, knockoffs of a chair once meant to receive ...

"MIES," a hulking new monograph from Phaidon about Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, contains few bombshell revelations. (Unless you count the disclosure that the famous expression "less is more"—endlessly ...

An accent chair is just that — an object of furniture that adds an extra element of architectural interest to a room while still retaining its primary function of providing seating. With thousands of ...

There it was, the Barcelona Chair, an icon of the modern movement, in all its simple elegance. The pigskin used for the original pieces have since been replaced by bovine leather, and the frame now ...

Unlike the Barcelona Chair, a mainstay of Knoll’s collection for decades, the Tugendhat Chair, also designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1929, had been out of production since 1979 until the ...

Simply sign up to the Life & Arts myFT Digest -- delivered directly to your inbox. Often mistaken as a product of mid-century modernism, the Barcelona chair was in fact created for the 1929 ...

I flew to Barcelona, Spain, to go sitting. Some people think that paintings embody culture. I think chairs do it better. My logic is simple: If chairs really are miniaturized architecture, as all ...

The Barcelona Chair was designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1929.(moDecor Furniture Pvt Ltd/ CC/Wikimedia Commons) Every designer loves a good chair and perhaps the twentieth century's most famous ...