An interlocking scarf joint on one of the present chairs
131 LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE 1886-1969 Pair of “Barcelona” chairs, model no. 250, and a “Tugendhat” table, model no. MR 150, ca. 1955-1958 Chairs: chrome-plated steel, leather; table: chrome-plated steel, glass. Manufactured by Waldemar Stiegler for Knoll International, Germany (3). Each chair: 29 in. (73.7 cm.) high; table: 18 3/4 x 38 1/2 x 38 1/4 in. (47.6 x 97.8 x 97.2 cm.)
Estimate $ 2 0 , 0 0 0 - 3 0 , 0 0 0 PROVENANCE Private Collection, Berlin SELECTED LITERATURE Chairs: Mobilia, March 1958, np.; Alexander von Vegesack and
Matthias Kries, Mies van der Rohe: Architecture and Design in Stuttgart, Barcelona, Brno, Geneve, 1998, pp. 69-70; Christiane Lange, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe & Lilly Reich: Möbel und Räume, Krefeld, 2006, pp. 174-75; Helmut Reuter and Birgit Schulte, eds., Mies and Modern Living: Interiors, Furniture, Photography, Ostfildern, 2008, p. 184, fig. 188 for an advertisement by Knoll International. Table: Ludwig Glaeser, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe: Furniture and Furniture Drawings from the Design Collection and the Mies van der Rohe Archive, New York, 1977, p. 60; Terence Riley and Barry Bergdoll, eds., Mies in Berlin, New York, 2001, p. 45
Phillips de Pury & Company would like to thank Dr. Hans Deuerler, Mies van der Rohe expert, and Dr. Friederike Deuerler, Department of Mechanical Engineering, Bergische Universität Wuppertal, Germany, for their assistance cataloguing this lot.
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