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this is such a good deal... I wish I had  place to put one...


the chair is marked down from $975 to $399, and the ottoman $483 to $199. they have cream and red too. also shipping is virtually free at $2.95 (they may not be as good of quality as the ones at DWR, but they certainly have the look!) it's kinda like look for less for furniture...


Barcelona Black Leather ChairBarcelona Black Leather Ottoman


ooh check it - you can get both for only $599 - the reviews are good too:


Pavilion Chair and Ottoman Set


 


$3500 for the chair and $1654 for the ottoman at DWR:



the original mies designs at the barcelona pavilion:



 



-- Edited by D at 12:47, 2006-11-12

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D wrote:


this is such a good deal... I wish I had  place to put one...


 



-- Edited by D at 12:47, 2006-11-12

ditto.  especially the cream ones! 

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shopgirl82 wrote:


D wrote:


this is such a good deal... I wish I had  place to put one...



ditto.  especially the cream ones! 


I know - pretty:


Barcelona Creme Leather Chair


I like this chair too (is it a breuer design? I can't remember):


Lexington Avenue Red Leather Lounging Chair



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I love the ivory Barcelona chair but the leather on the original ones that are manufactured by Knoll is not shiny, like the leather on these seems to be. Yes, I'm a snob...





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Hedvig wrote:

I love the ivory Barcelona chair but the leather on the original ones that are manufactured by Knoll is not shiny, like the leather on these seems to be. Yes, I'm a snob...






yes, but it's the look for less... this doens't look as shiny here, I wonder if it's the same chairs:


Pavilion Chair and Ottoman Set


the funny thing is, the overstock ones look closer to the original design than the knoll ones...


 



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I love those chairs, they're so beautiful. People have used them in school projects so much that all of our professors have banned us from using them.

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It's just that the Barcelona chair is a registered trademark. This is from Knoll's web site:


"Exclusive manufacturing and sales rights accorded to Knoll by the designer in 1953."


So I think the ones at Overstock fall in the "inspired by" category. They don't even mention Mies van der Rohe or Knoll anywhere on the site.


But yes, it's the look for less and the chairs do look great.




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Hedvig wrote:

It's just that the Barcelona chair is a registered trademark. This is from Knoll's web site:


"Exclusive manufacturing and sales rights accorded to Knoll by the designer in 1953."


So I think the ones at Overstock fall in the "inspired by" category. They don't even mention Mies van der Rohe or Knoll anywhere on the site.


But yes, it's the look for less and the chairs do look great.




-- Edited by Hedvig at 13:52, 2006-11-12


oh honey, I know Knoll owns the rights to market the chair as the barcelona chair.  IMO - what makes something identifiable as a barcelona chair is the design of it's components, not the manufacturer. Knoll didn't make them for Mies either, they just purchased licensing later. Yes, Knoll's quality is superior, but any chair that looks like a barcelona chair is called a barcelona chair IMO


I just thought this was a good look for less for those who like barcelona chairs.



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Just for a little history, here is the story of the Barcelona Pavilion. The chairs were never called Barcelona chairs by Mies van der Rohe either, they were referred to as Barcelona chairs by others because they were designed for the Barcelona Pavilion (it's factoids like these that are left over from my industrial design education )






the barcelona pavilion
(1928-1929, demolished 1930)

see mies van der rohe





exhibitions

biography

the farnsworth house

the twin towers

the seagram building

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the barcelona pavilion was designed by mies van de rohe
as the german national pavilion for the 1929 barcelona
international exhibition, held on montjuïc.
the small ceremonial hall (for which he also designed the
famous chrome and leather 'barcelona chair'),
had a flat roof supported on chrome columns.
the steel skeletron and the pavilion’s walls,
rectangular planes of marble, glass, onyx placed
vertically or orizontally, could be freely positioned and made
it possible that space seems to flow through them.
this use of the open plan achieves extreme lightness
and movement. the pavilion was conceived as the setting in
which the german authorities would receive king alphonso XIII.
despite its initial disassembly after the close of the exhibition,
the pavilion has become a key reference point in both the career
of mies van der rohe and 20th-century architecture as a whole.
an emblematic work of modern-movement architecture,
the pavilion has not only been exhaustively studied and
interpreted, but it has also been a source of inspiration for the
work of several generations of architects all over the world.

the mies van der rohe foundation was constituted in 1983
as a non-profit public entity devoted to fostering the cultural
debate on contemporary architecture from the city of barcelona.
the foundation is also entrusted with preserving and
disseminating knowledge of mies van der rohe's german pavilion.
given the significance of the pavilion, the decision was made to
reconstruct it on its original site.
work began in 1983 and was completed in 1986.
http://www.miesbcn.com



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D wrote:

I just thought this was a good look for less for those who like barcelona chairs.




Oh, it is, I agree with you completely.


It may be a bit silly but I really want to own one that's made by Knoll and has Mies van der Rohe's signature stamped into it. Maybe one day...




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Hedvig wrote:


D wrote:



I just thought this was a good look for less for those who like barcelona chairs.






Oh, it is, I agree with you completely.


It may be a bit silly but I really want to own one that's made by Knoll and has Mies van der Rohe's signature stamped into it. Maybe one day...





oh, I know, they are gorgeous. I would love to have a Herman Miller Eames lounge chair in our den also - just beautiful. I was actually in the factory room where they make them at Herman Miller as a university field trip. They make them pretty much one at at time, and you are definitely paying for quality hand-craftmanship when you pay the big bucks.


these are so comfortable too:


Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman



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D wrote:


I would love to have a Herman Miller Eames lounge chair in our den also - just beautiful. I was actually in the factory room where they make them at Herman Miller as a university field trip. They make them pretty much one at at time, and you are definitely paying for quality hand-craftmanship when you pay the big bucks.




The factory room visit must have been really interesting. I love the Eames chair, too, and drool over it every time I watch Frasier.




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