{"id":65623,"date":"2026-11-10T09:07:29","date_gmt":"2026-11-10T08:07:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hartdesignselection.com\/?p=65623"},"modified":"2026-11-10T09:07:38","modified_gmt":"2026-11-10T08:07:38","slug":"mies-van-der-rohe-life-work-and-iconic-furniture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hartdesignselection.com\/en\/mies-van-der-rohe-life-work-and-iconic-furniture\/","title":{"rendered":"Mies van der Rohe: life, work and iconic furniture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In the spring of 1929, in Barcelona, Germany opened its pavilion at the International Exposition. No showcases, no products for sale: just planes of travertine, green marble and golden onyx, glass walls, a roof that seems to float on slender chrome columns, a pool and a statue of a woman by Georg Kolbe. In the middle, two armchairs of leather and steel. The building was dismantled in 1930. Yet it became one of the most famous in the history of architecture, so much so that it was rebuilt exactly as it was in 1986. Its architect was Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Marble, onyx, glass and chrome columns: material at the heart of the Barcelona Pavilion. Photo: Christian G\u00e4nshirt<\/a>, CC BY-SA 4.0<\/a>, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

Mies is the architect of “less is more”, the phrase that sums up a century of modernity on its own. But to reduce his work to a matter of stripping things back would be to miss the point: with him, simplicity is a luxury, made of the finest materials and an obsessive precision. That is what makes him so valuable to anyone who loves interiors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A child of stone<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Ludwig Mies was born in Aachen on 27 March 1886. He grew up in his father’s stone-carving business and learned early on the weight and grain of materials. He never earned an architecture degree: he trained on building sites, then with Berlin architects.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1934. Photo: Hugo Erfurth<\/a>, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n \n \n
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