Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. 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 ...

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 ...

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 The pigskin used for the original pieces have since been replaced by bovine leather, and the frame now ...

There are only a handful of architects in contemporary history whose names are widely recognized. Think Zaha Hadid, known for her futuristic, sinewy forms that seem to defy structural logic (see, for ...

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chair is one of the those pieces of furniture that you nearly need to be convinced it was designed as far back as 1929. It is so of the moment – as it has been for ...

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 ...

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 ...