6 Brass Flat-Bar Brno Chairs by Mies Van Der Rohe

6 Brass Flat-Bar Brno Chairs by Mies Van Der Rohe

A vintage Brno chair designed by Mies van der Rohe. These chairs were a special order with bronze flat bar frames for a prominent law firm in Texas.

Reupholstery is recommended.

Dimensions

22.75″W x 19.5″D x 31.5″H

17.5″ Seat Height

Condition

Good

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Knoll International
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, Peter Behrens. In the mid-1920s, he began to design furniture, pieces that he conceived and created for particular interiors. In 1927, he met Lilly Reich, a Bauhaus alumnus who collaborated with Mies on his first versions of a cantilevered chair with a tubular steel frame. The cantilevered chair had a curved frame that exploited the aesthetic, as well as the structural possibilities of this material. Their experiments culminated in the virtuoso Brno chair designed between 1929 and 1930 with a chromed flat steel frame.