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Product sheet MR20-type armchair / MR1-type stool

Architonic-ID:  4102496
Designer:
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Manufacturer:
Bamberg Metallwerkstätten
Year: 1927
 
Designed 1927, manufactured prior to 1931 by Bamberg Metallwerkstätten, chromed tubular steel and black stained cane.
311⁄2in. (80cm.) height; 22in. (56cm.) width; 31in. (79cm.) depth - the chair; 18in. (46cm.) height; 201⁄2in. (51.5cm.) width; 20in. (51cm.) depth - the stool
Mies van der Rohe originally produced this chair design for the 1927 exhibition Die Wohning at the Weissenhofsiedlung in Stuttgart.
Lit: Derek Ostergard (ed.), Bent Wood and Metal Furniture 1850-1946, New York, 1987, p. 275 (the design illustrated);
Jan van Geest and Otakar Mácel, Stühle aus Stahl, Cologne, 1980, p. 95, fig. 1
estimated value: 
5000-7000 GBP
reached price: 
10.157 GBP
 
Auction: 
Designed by Architects

Sales date: 2003-10-08
location: London
Sales number: 6813
Lot number: 47
 
Auction House:
Christie`s
Address:

Christie`s


United Kingdom

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Designer:
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe


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