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Child's Barcelona Stool
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Child's Barcelona Stool
A perfect companion to the iconic chair, Mies van der Rohe's child-size Barcelona stool also makes great stand-alone seating. Child's version is 80% scale of standard size.
Designer: Mies van Der Rohe, 1929
Manufacturer: Knoll
Dimensions: 19"w | 18"d | 12h
Construction: 18 individual panels cut from a single cowhide are hand-welted and hand-tufted with leather buttons. Frame is polished chrome hand-ground and hand-buffed to a mirror finish. Upholstery straps are attached with aluminum rivets. Sustainably designed, GREENGUARD Indoor Air Quality Certified.
Available in a wide range of Spinneybeck Leathers.
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Founded in 1938, Knoll uses modern design to connect people to their work, their lives, their world. Throughout its history, by embracing the creative genius at the Bauhaus School and the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Knoll has been recognized for creating residential and workplace furnishings that inspire, evolve, and endure. Today, Knoll’s commitment to modern design and dedication to sustainability have yielded a unique portfolio of products that continue to respond and adapt to changing needs.
Knoll has always remained true to the Bauhaus design philosophy that modern furniture should complement architectural space, not compete with it. At Knoll, modern design has been the guiding principle, and a passion shared by customers and design professionals worldwide.
Regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of architecture, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s ‘less-is-more’ approach to design was the gold standard for many generations of modern architecture. His legendary career started humbly at his father’s stonemasonry business, giving him an early appreciation of material and structure. From there he apprenticed with furniture designer Bruno Paul in Berlin before joining the office of Peter Behrens, an architect and painter at the forefront of the modern movement.
In 1912, Mies established his own office in Berlin. Through furniture, residential projects and extraordinary, yet unrealized concepts for skyscrapers, he gained recognition as a leader of the German modern movement. As such, he was selected to design the German Pavilion at the Barcelona Industrial Exposition of 1929. His design, a rhythmic arrangement of horizontal and vertical planes of glass, stone and metal was an experiment in free flowing space. With no discernable distinction between rooms or inside and outside, the design fundamentally challenged the architectural ‘boxes within a box’ standard of the time. Inside, Mies included the Barcelona Chair and Ottoman, designed to offer the King and Queen of Spain to a place to rest (they in fact never sat down). The Barcelona Pavilion and the chairs it contained are universally recognized as milestones of modern design.
Mies served as Vice President of the Deutsher Werkbund and Director of the Bauhaus from 1930 until it closed in 1933. He immigrated to the United States in 1938 to become the director of architecture at the Armour Institute (later the Illinois Institute of Technology). From his Chicago-based practice, Mies designed a portfolio of buildings that changed the face of American institutional architecture ― the most notable examples being the IIT campus and the Seagram Building in New York. While at IIT he befriended and mentored a young Florence Knoll. Florence has always credited Mies as her most influential instructor, and, in 1948, Mies granted Knoll exclusive rights to produce his furniture, including the Barcelona collection, the Brno chair, and MR series.
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We want you to love your purchase. We will work with you to make it right if you receive an item that is damaged or defective and reported as such upon delivery.
Most furniture, lighting, and rugs that we offer are either made-to-order, or non-stocked and ordered specifically for you, and therefore NOT RETURNABLE unless damaged or defective and reported as such at the time of delivery.
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You may return in-stock, small-parcel items for store credit or refund with your original receipt when returned in original (new and unused) condition within 14 days of store purchase or delivery.
Return Policy
We want you to love your purchase. We will work with you to make it right if you receive an item that is damaged or defective and reported as such upon delivery.
Most furniture, lighting, and rugs that we offer are either made-to-order, or non-stocked and ordered specifically for you, and therefore NOT RETURNABLE unless damaged or defective and reported as such at the time of delivery.
Made-to-order and non-stocked items include all furniture, lighting, rugs, and accessories shipped directly from our manufacturers, which encompasses a majority of orders.
Please be sure to measure carefully, thoughtfully consider your purchase, and contact us for any assistance you need prior to placing your order.
You may return in-stock, small-parcel items for store credit or refund with your original receipt when returned in original (new and unused) condition within 14 days of store purchase or delivery.
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