Knoll Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe - MR Chaise Lounge

The MR Collection represents some of the earliest steel furniture designs by Mies van der Rohe. The material choice was inspired by fellow Bauhaus master Marcel Breuer, while the forms are thought to be modern derivatives of 19th century iron rocking chairs.

MEASUREMENTS:

• Height: 95.2 cm / 37.5 inch


• Width: 59.6 cm / 23.5 inch


• Depth: 119.8 cm / 47.2 inch

MATERIALS:

• Frame is seamless tubular steel with a polished chrome finish


• Available in a variety of Spinneybeck® leathers with matching leather straps


• Cushion supported by leather straps. Straps are sandwiched to belting thickness on both front and back with sides stained to match leather selection color

HELPFUL NOTES:

• Glides included


• Leather cushion crafted in a series of quilted and seamed sections


• The KnollStudio logo and signature of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe are stamped into the frame


• Certified Clean Air GOLD

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Germany, 1886 - 1969

Mies van der Rohe began his career in architecture in Berlin, working as an architect first in the studio of Bruno Paul and then, like Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius, for Peter Behrens. In 1928, Mies and his companion and colleague, the designer and Bauhaus alumna Lilly Reich, were asked to design the German Pavilion for the 1929 International Exposition in Barcelona. The purpose of the Pavilion was to provide a location that could be visited by the king and queen of Spain during the opening of the Exposition. With that in mind, Mies designed a modern throne – known today as the Barcelona Chair – for their majesties. In the following year, Mies designed another notable chair, the Brno, with a gravity-defying cantilevered base.

In 1930, Mies succeeded Walter Gropius as the director of the Bauhaus, where he stayed until the school closed in 1933. In 1937, Mies emigrated to the United States, and a year later became the director of architecture at the Illinois Institute of Technology. The rest of his career was devoted to promoting the modernist style of architecture in the U.S., resulting in rigorously modern buildings such as the Farnsworth House and the Seagram Building, designed with Philip Johnson.

The modern city, with its towers of glass and steel, can be at least in part attributed to the influence of architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. Equally significant, if smaller in scale, is Mies’ daring furniture designs, pieces that exhibit an unerring sense of proportion, as well as minimalist forms and exquisitely refined details.

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