Barcelona Chair By Mies van der Rohe

Mies van der Rohe nominees revealed

Caruso St John’s Nottingham Contemporary is among scores of projects nominated for this year’s Mies van der Rohe Award, the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture. Other nominees for the €60,000 Mies van der Rohe prize and €20,000 runner-up special mention include David Lea and Pat Borer’s Wise Building, Wiel Arets’ V Tower and Zaha [...]

A Mies Masterwork, Deteriorating and in Dispute

FROM the outside, the Tugendhat House doesn’t look like one of the most important residential buildings of the 20th century: it’s just two white stucco cubes separated by an opening through which a few spiky treetops protrude. But as a tour guide led a group of 10 through this modern home in the Czech Republic’s [...]

Knoll Inc. and Alphaville Design Inc. Resolve Trademark Dispute Relating to Mies van der Rohe Furniture

Knoll, Inc. (NYSE: KNL) and Alphaville Design, Inc. announced today that they have settled their dispute relating to Knoll’s registered “BARCELONA®” trademark (U.S. Trademark Registration No. 772,313), and its trademarks relating to the Barcelona Chair (U.S. Trademark Registration No. 2,893,025), Barcelona Stool (United Kingdom Trademark No. 2,894,977), Barcelona Couch (U.S. Trademark No. 2,894,980), Barcelona Table [...]

Knoll Classic Designs by Mies van der Rohe Featured in Structures Documentary, for Canadian Television

The Rogers Television Canada production, Structures, which visits the 54th floor of the Toronto-Dominion Bank Tower, showcases designs by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for Knoll. In this episode, the award-winning Ontario cable series explores the bank’s historic building and captures how seamlessly furniture can work to complement a space without undermining it. The 54th [...]