by admin | Feb 15, 2011 | Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
he Farnsworth House is one of the most significant of Mies van der Rohe’s works, equal in importance to such canonical monuments as the Barcelona Pavilion, built for the 1929 International Exposition and the 1954-58 Seagram Building in New York. Its significance is...
by admin | Feb 11, 2011 | News
FROM the outside, the Tugendhat House doesn’t look like one of the most important residential buildings of the 20th century: it’s just two white stucco cubes separated by an opening through which a few spiky treetops protrude. But as a tour guide led a group of 10...
by admin | Feb 11, 2011 | News
Knoll, Inc. (NYSE: KNL) and Alphaville Design, Inc. announced today that they have settled their dispute relating to Knoll’s registered “BARCELONA®” trademark (U.S. Trademark Registration No. 772,313), and its trademarks relating to the Barcelona...
by admin | Feb 11, 2011 | News
The Rogers Television Canada production, Structures, which visits the 54th floor of the Toronto-Dominion Bank Tower, showcases designs by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for Knoll. In this episode, the award-winning Ontario cable series explores the bank’s historic...
by admin | Jun 3, 2010 | Barcelona Chair
The Barcelona chair was exclusively designed for the German Pavilion, that country’s entry for the Ibero-American Exposition of 1929, which was hosted by Barcelona, Spain. The design resulted from collaboration between the famous Bauhaus architect Ludwig Mies...