This week’s lecture take us to Mies Van de Rohe, a world-renowned modernism architect and still refers to our previous study on “From Bauhaus to Our House”. He was one of the very important avant-garde of the modernism movement and one of my favorite architect due to the fact that his designs are all based on “Less is More” concept.
There is no doubt the “Barcelona chair” Mies Van de Rohe designed is a masterpiece. It is not often that you come across furniture that stays popular through decades of new trends that comes and goes. However, I still find this piece of furniture quite ironic since from the reading “From Bauhaus to Our House”, Mies was one of the architects who believed in designing for the non-bourgeois. How could this expensive chair, ranging at 6 digits number of price be any non-bourgeois, it is clearly for the bourgeois who can afford this much. They are also difficult to mass produce which also contradicts the fact that this chair is from a non-bourgeois designer. However, despite the fact that this notorious (to myself) chair is not a non-bourgeois design, it could not be argue that it is a masterpiece. Owning this chair simply means you’re investing on a piece of history, an icon of modernism.
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