Manifesto
Between 1925 and 1930, a group of architects traded carved wood for steel tube and flat bar. What had been a factory technique became a domestic language. These five chairs are presented as works of art: their form, their materials and the era that made them possible.
Timeline
1925—1930
Hover over each year to see the chair that was born in it.
The collection
5 objects
- 01
Wassily
A bicycle handlebar turned into an armchair.
Marcel Breuer
Bauhaus, Dessau1925
- 02
MR10
A chair with no back legs, floating on an arc.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Weissenhof, Stuttgart1927
- 03
Grand Confort
A club armchair with its skeleton on the outside.
Le Corbusier, Jeanneret and Perriand
Paris1928
- 04
Barcelona
A modern throne for a pavilion without walls.
Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich
German Pavilion, Barcelona1929
- 05
Brno
A steel C for the dining room of a glass house.
Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich
Villa Tugendhat, Brno1930