Knoll Mies van der Rohe Stainless Steel Barcelona Table (MR3962)
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Manufacturer
Knoll International
Designer
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Mies van der Rohe began his career in architecture in Berlin, working as an architect first in the studio of Bruno Paul and then, like Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius, Peter Behrens. In the mid-1920s, he began to design furniture, pieces that he conceived and created for particular interiors. In 1927, he met Lilly Reich, a Bauhaus alumnus who collaborated with Mies on his first versions of a cantilevered chair with a tubular steel frame. The cantilevered chair had a curved frame that exploited the aesthetic, as well as the structural possibilities of this material. Their experiments culminated in the virtuoso Brno chair designed between 1929 and 1930 with a chromed flat steel frame.
Description
Designed by Mies van der Rohe in 1929. This table is part of his Barcelona collection which won awards including the Museum of Modern Art and Design Center Stuttgart Award.
Constructed from premium grade 202 bar stock stainless steel. Single piece construction, hand-ground and hand-buffed to mirror finish. The top is 3/4" clear polished float glass with 1/8" wide beveled edges.
In the base KP is stamped into the metal. Knoll used to stamp KP on their Barcelona tables until they replaced it with Mies van der Rohe`s signature.
Dimensions
39.75"l x 39.75"w x 18"h 3/4" thick glass with 1/8" wide beveled edge
