Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe Furnitures

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe

Ludwig Mies Van Der Rohe began working for his father as a stonecutter and then turned to technical drawing.
In 1905 he moved to Berlin where he worked with Bruno Paul, a furniture designer and Peter Behrens, architect at AEG, today believed to be one of the precursors of industrial design. After opening an architecture studio in Berlin (1919) Mies acquired a reputation by joining the artists’ association Novembergruppe, for which he created various projects that were never realized such as the first glass skyscrapers.
In 1926 the Deutscher Werkbund requested a “model neighborhood” and it was designed under the leadership of Mies van der Rohe with the participation of architects such as Le Corbusier and Gropius.
During the ‘twenties the Weissenhof in Stuttgart became the basic example of modern architecture. During this period Mies began designing furniture.
In 1930 he became the director of the Bauhaus in Dessau and remained in that position until the advent of nazism.
When the Bauhaus was shut down
in 1933 he moved to the United States; he took with him the ideas of the Modern Movement and spread them through his designs.
After 1940 he joined the Chicago Institute of Technology, first as an instructor and then as director. His most important projects were the Seagram Building in New York, the Cullinam Museum in Houston and the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin.