Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Private Collection, Berlin

Werner Gräff, INNENRÄUME: HERAUSGEGEBEN VOM DEUTSCHEN WERKBUND, Stuttgart 1928, p. 66 for a related example
Exh. Cat., Zurich, Kunstgewerbemuseum der Stadt Zürich; Vienna, Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst; Groningen, Groninger Museum; Cologne, Kölnischer Kunstverein and Berlin, Bauhaus-Archiv, Museum für Gestaltung,  STÜHLE AUS STAHL: Metalmöbel 1925-1940, November 1980 - November 1981, p. 27. fig. 15 for a related example, p. 32, fig. 19A for a drawing, p. 95
Alexander von Vegesack, Deutsche Stahlrohrmöbel: 650 Modelle aus Katalogen von 1927-1958, Munich 1986, p. 64 for a Berliner Metallgewerbe Josef Müller advertisement
Exh. Cat., New York, IBM Gallery of Science and Art and travelling, Bent Wood and Metal Furniture: 1850-1946, 1987, p. 131, fig. 5-13 for a related example, p. 275, no. 71 for a related example
Exh. Cat., Dessau, Bauhaus Dessau, Weil am Rhein, Vitra Design Museum, Hamburg, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe, Ein Stuhl macht Geschichte, August 1992 - March 1993, p. 27

Overall good condition consistent with age and use. Scattered oxidation and loss of nickel plating throughout the frame. The original leather exhibiting cracking and minor flaking and wear throughout, concentrated to the upper corners of the backrest and lower rear right corner proper of the seat, with this particular crack measuring approximately 21 cm in length. Each of the above mentioned areas have been sensitively and professionally stabilised with a cloth patch to the underside and are only visible from the underside of the chair and on close inspection of the rear corners of the backrest. The support stringing below the seat is likely a later replacement.
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The present lot is a rare early example in nickel plated tubular steel and retains its original leather upholstery.