MR20-TYPE ARMCHAIR & MR1-TYPE STOOL

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LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE; Germany
MR20-TYPE ARMCHAIR & MR1-TYPE STOOL
designed 1927, manufactured prior to 1931 by Bamberg Metallwerkstätten, chromed tubular steel and black stained cane
31½in. (80cm.) height; 22in. (56cm.) width; 31in. (79cm.) depth - the chair; 18in. (46cm.) height; 20½in. (51.5cm.) width; 20in. (51cm.) depth - the stool (2)

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Lot Essay

Cf: Derek Ostergard (ed.), Bent Wood and Metal Furniture 1850-1946, New York, 1987, p. 275 (the design illustrated)
See also: Jan van Geest and Otakar Mácel, Stühle aus Stahl, Cologne, 1980, p. 95, fig. 1

Mies van der Rohe originally produced this chair design for the 1927 exhibition Die Wohning at the Weissenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart.

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