Key facts

Product:
MR20-type armchair / MR1-type stool
Manufacturer:
Christie`s
Architonic ID:
4102496
Launched:
1927
Country:
United Kingdom

Product description

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