Side chair

Designer: (Ludwig) Mies van der Rohe

1932 (designed 1927)

Steel with original woven linen and cotton upholstery

Minneapolis Institute of Art

A cantilevered chair with a tubular steel frame and woven fabric seat and back. A cantilevered chair with a tubular steel frame and woven fabric seat and back. Mies van der Rohe, a German-born architect and designer, was perhaps the best known exponent of the international style in architecture and one of the most influential designers of furniture in the twentieth century. His greatest contributions to furniture date from the 1920s. The tubular steel chair was originally designed in 1927, although this example was produced in 1932 for the offices of the Prevoyance Sociale, a Brussels corporation. Gallery Not on View Gift of funds from the Decorative Arts Council