Knoll International Barcelona Armchair
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Knoll International Barcelona Armchair
The Barcelona Armchair by Knoll International is the classic version with a chrome-plated frame and quilted leather cushions. Ludwig Mies van der Rohe designed the Barcelona furniture in 1929 for the German Pavilion at the World's Fair in Barcelona. The crossed frame and the tailored grid of leather cushions became the embodiment of modern architecture, for which Mies stood with his principle "less is more". He taught at the Bauhaus and at the Illinois Institute of Technology and was a mentor to Florence Knoll; in 1953 he transferred the production rights for the Barcelona collection to Knoll. The Museum of Modern Art in New York honoured it in 1977.
The frame is made of flat spring steel, chrome-plated to a high gloss and hand-polished to a mirror finish. 17 straps of saddle leather carry the cushions, fixed with aluminium rivets; their visible side is covered with the cover leather, while the side facing the cushion remains natural-coloured. For the cover, 40 individual leather rectangles are hand-cut and hand-sewn with piping from a single hide, so that the colour and grain of all the panels match. The cushions are filled with foam and connected to the frame via small leather straps. The "KnollStudio" logo and the signature of Mies van der Rohe are embossed.
The cushions are filled with foam; those who prefer a softer seat will find an additional polyester cushion pad in the Barcelona Relax. The leather is available in Volo, Andes and Velluto Pelle, as well as in the special edition Venezia.
- Design: Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 1929
- Type: armchair
- Frame: flat spring steel, chrome-plated to a high gloss, hand-polished
- Straps: 17 saddle leather straps with aluminium rivets
- Upholstery: 40 hand-cut leather panels with piping
- Cover: leather Andes (47 colours), Velluto Pelle (86 colours), Volo (56 colours), special edition Venezia (6 colours) – 195 covers in total
- Dimensions: W 75 x D 77 x H 77 cm · Seat height 43 cm
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