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Facts about The Design of the Barcelona Chair
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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe originally intended the Barcelona Chair to serve as seating for the King and Queen of Spain during the pavilion's opening ceremony.
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Knoll Associates has held the license to manufacture the Barcelona Chair since 1953, producing it as an enduring symbol of modernist design.
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Each Barcelona Chair requires numerous individual leather cushions, hand-stitched and arranged in a grid pattern supported by leather straps.
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The Barcelona Chair was originally created for the German Pavilion at the 1929 International Exposition held in Barcelona, Spain.
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Designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich, the Barcelona Chair features a frame of flat polished steel bars joined by bolts rather than welds.