Barcelona chair is a chair that is both trendy in design and yet very functional. Anyone seated in the chair will enjoy the comfort that it offers, plus the feeling of safety that envelopes one while seated thereat. The design is both modern and retro in nature.

The quality and comfort are beyond anything that one has ever sat on. The leather is so smooth and soft and the cushions look like they are one with the frame because of how well-made they are.

The chair was created to replicate a throne and made its first appearance during the inaugural ceremony by the Spanish royal family at the exposition.

The Barcelona chair exudes grandeur and class and at the same time it is light and strong. The use of minimalist and sleek lines shows its trendiness, while the quilted cushion design is reminiscent of the design features of furniture in the 1960s and 1970s.The Barcelona chair is considered by common consensus to be the pinnacle of a harmonized approach to materials, design, and workmanship.

The Barcelona chair has a Green guard certificate, which means that it is eco-friendly and not made from cheap material that releases harmful substances into the atmosphere.

Designed by Mies Van der Rohe and his long time partner and companion Lilly Reich the Barcelona chair is mostly misattributed to Mies alone.

It is perhaps difficult to comprehend today, but this icon of modernist style was actually designed in 1928. The chair was created as furnishing for one of Mies’s many architectural jewels: The German Pavilion building at the Barcelona World Fair 1929.

The Barcelona chair that he designed for the Pavilion is said to have been inspired by both the folding chairs of the Pharaohs and the X shaped footstools of the Romans. This regal and formal lineage was quite fitting and was no doubt intentional, affording this modern design an intellectual and cultural weight that would be appreciated by the highly educated audience, and would have been all the more obvious in such a futuristic environment.

Although the chairs may conceptually have been intended to be thrones for the visiting royals, the general consensus is that they did not actually sit in them. However the Barcelona chair, sometimes referred to as the Pavilion chair, quickly gained a reputation as a design worthy of kings.