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Article: AT VARIOUS times in the 20th century, Mies van der Rohe, Arne Jacobsen and Tom Dixon all designed chairs which have become modern furniture classics.
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- Sunday Business (London, England)
- Article date:
- June 17, 2002
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AT VARIOUS times in the 20th century, Mies van der Rohe, Arne Jacobsen and Tom Dixon all designed chairs which have become modern furniture classics. Van der Rohes sleek Barcelona chair could not be more different from Jacobsens sci-fi Egg or Tom Dixons contemporary S chair, yet they all look perfectly contemporary and are all eminently collectible.
There is a growing market for modern furniture of all vintages. It must be of modern design, whose origins are in the Bauhaus school of the early 1900s, which insisted on design based on architectural principles and using industrial processes, materials and forms.
Its where a designer has sat down and ...