Flat Bar Brno Chair

Brno chair with flat bar frame by Mies Van Der Rohe, from Knoll

The Mies van der Rohe designed BRNO Dining Chair or simply Mies Dining Chair was designed in 1930. The BRNO Dining Chair features an ingenious and sleek single piece cantilevered design, a perfect blend of art and function. The BRNO Dining Chair is very popular as a dining chair, boardroom chair, or waiting room chair.

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Frame structure: highly polished #304 grade stainless steel frame with chrome finish; silver welded joints

Seat: hardwood frame with highly resilient urethane foam

Top Grain/Aniline/Vintage Leather Leather upholstery (C.O.M available)

All materials are fire-resistant & non-toxic (Baby friendly)

Dimensions:

Width: 23" x Depth: 22.5" x Height: 32"

Seat Height: 17.5"

Armrest Height: 26"

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies; March 27, 1886 - August 17, 1969) was a German-American architect. He is commonly referred to and was addressed as Mies, his surname. Along with Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright, he is widely regarded as one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture.

Mies, like many of his post-World War I contemporaries, sought to establish a new architectural style that could represent modern times just as Classical and Gothic did for their own eras. He created an influential twentieth-century architectural style, stated with extreme clarity and simplicity. His mature buildings made use of modern materials such as industrial steel and plate glass to define interior spaces. He strove toward an architecture with a minimal framework of structural order balanced against the implied freedom of free-flowing open space. He called his buildings"skin and bones" architecture. He sought a rational approach that would guide the creative process of architectural design, but he was always concerned with expressing the spirit of the modern era. He is often associated with his quotation of the aphorisms,"less is more" and"God is in the details".

Brno chair with flat bar frame by Mies Van Der Rohe, from Knoll

Design Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 1930

Flat bar steel frame, upholstery

Made in USA by Knoll

Designed in 1930 for the Tugendhat house in Brno, Czechoslovakia, the Brno chair mirrors the ground breaking simplicity of its original environment. A simple profile, clean lines and meticulous attention to detail have elevated the Brno chair to an icon of twentieth century furniture design.

In close cooperation with Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and later the Mies van der Rohe Archives of The Museum of Modern Art in New York, Knoll continues to reproduce the Brno chairs to the designer's exacting specifications. Hand-ground, hand-buffed seamless frames demonstrate the exceptional quality. With a large selection of fabrics and leathers available, the Brno chair complements any interior. An elegant alternative to wooden side chairs.

Knoll is the only authorized and licensed manufacturer of the Van der Rohe collection. Mies van der Rohe's signature is stamped into the frame of each piece to guarantee authenticity.

After working in his father's stonemasonry business and engaging furniture apprenticeships, Mies established his own office in Berlin, and later became a member of the Deutscher Werkbund and Director of the Bauhaus. He immigrated to the United States in 1938, setting up a practice in Chicago where he persued his architecture career and later became the director of architecture at the Institute of Technology in Chicago.

Can be specified with optional matching armpads as well as with four charcoal-colored nylon glides recessed in base of frame.

22.75" w | 22.5" d | 31.5" h | seat: 17.5" h | arms: 25.75" h