Lot 45
  • 45

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

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Description

  • Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
  • "Barcelona" Chair, Model No. MR 90
  • chromium-plated metal with second generation leather strapping and cushions

Provenance

The Collection of James Johnson Sweeney, New York, 1932
Thence by descent

Literature

Ludwig Glaeser, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe:  Furniture and Furniture Drawings from the Design Collection and the Mies van der Rohe Archive, New York, 1977, pp. 47-49 
Terence Riley and Barry Bergdoll, eds., Mies in Berlin, New York, 2001, pp. 239 and 241 (for the chair in the original and reconstructed Barcelona pavilion)