Hue Amour

I love furniture.  I appreciate chairs, couches, ottomans and any other piece of craftsmanship from all genres and design periods.  Pieces of functional artwork especially speak out to me, leaving me mesmerized and in awe, when they’re designed with timelessness etched with functionality and simplistic beauty.  With this in mind, Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chair is the piece that comes to mind first and foremost.  The Barcelona chair, in my own words, kicks royal ass.

The Barcelona chair is a modernist period piece of furniture dating 1929, yet I feel it speaks driftingly to the minimalist period to come in the 1950′s.  The beauty it protrudes is so simple with the “S” beauty line curved through it’s legs, clean uninterrupted lines, with button tufts speaking of elegance and lending to it’s inviting appeal.  Eighty years after it’s creation, it is still a highly sought after piece of work and has not yet seen a day where it’s style has not been becoming.

Mies van der Rohe’s name, architecture and style lives on with a deep impression on past, present and future design.  The Barcelona chair sums up his mastery, from his large scale works to small details, in this small, simplistic form.  The Barcelona chair is, in my opinion, the greatest, and most successful designed chair, up to the current time.