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A chair MR 10, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, late 1926, manufactured by Berliner Metallge...

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A chair MR 10, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, late 1926, manufactured by Berliner Metallge...
A chair MR 10, designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, late 1926, manufactured by Berliner Metallgewerbe Josef Müller, Berlin, Neuköln, Lichtenraderstraße 32; probably manufactured at the same time as (or briefly after) the examples for the Weißenhof Housing Estate in Stuttgart in 1927, nickel plated tubular steel, cheese-head screws, profile shims of nickel-plated brass, the cowhide covers embossed along the edges (originally stained black), height (overall) 78 cm, height (of seat at back) 46.5 cm, height of seat 45 cm, depth 70 cm, width 47.8 cm, tube diatmetre 24 mm, strength of tubular steel 2 mm, tube diametre of stretcher 20 mm, strength of tubular steel of stretcher 1.75 mm; strength of leather cover of seat and backrest 3 mm; threads of all screws: 26 G Whitworth. Good original condition with traces of wear. The black colour of the leather seat and backrest faded at the front but perfectly recognizable at the back. One cheese-head screw and one shim for fastening the leather seat to the tubular steel frame lacking. Original fastening of the seat and backrest (the seat secured to the frame with 14, the back with 8 cheese-head screws, and shims). Extremely thick stretcher. Unlike in the later serial production, the measurements of the retaining screws at all tubular steel joints (support, backrest and stretcher) vary in size. This chair is one of the earliest examples of Model MR 10. It was either manufactured at the same time as the examples for the Weißenhof Housing Estate in Stuttgart (1927) or shortly afterwards. Contemporary photographs of Models MR 10 and MR 20 by Mies van der Rohe in the Weißenhof Housing Estate do not show any stringing of the seat. As the leather of the seat and back gives way, in later productions stringing was used (at first only for the seat) for the benefit of readjustment. The Bauhaus Collection in Dessau has two examples of Mies van der Rohe's armchair Model MR 20. They are presumed to be prototypes that were originally exhibited in the Weißenhof Housing Estate. Subsequently, they were brought to Mies van der Rohe's own apartment. In 1927 he gave them to the sculptor and architect Paul Rudolf Henning, from whose collection they got into the Bauhaus sale of Christie's Amsterdam (26th October 1989). They entered the Collection of Thorsten Bröhan and then appeared in the Bauhaus and Wiener Werkstätte sale of Sotheby's London (25th October 1991), from where they came into the Collection of the Dessau Bauhaus. These two armchair feature stringing of the seat and backrest. However, when the leather covering is removed, there appear the same number of drill holes as in Model MR 10 offered in our sale, which means that also the leather covers of the Bauhaus armchairs MR 20 originally were screwed to the tubular steel frame. Selected literature: Werner Gräff/Deutscher Werkbund, Innenräume, Akad. Verlag Dr. Fr.Wedekind & Co., Stuttgart 1928 Heinz und Bodo Rasch, Der Stuhl, Akad. Verlag Dr. Fr. Wedekin & Co., Stuttgart 1920 J. v. Geest/O. Macel, Stühle aus Stahl, Cologne 1980 A. v. Vegesack, Deutsche Stahlrohrmöbel, Munich 1986 Mies van der Rohe, Möbel und Bauten, Stuttgart, Barcelona, Brno, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein 1998 Provenance: From the estate of a Berlin university professor. One of two examples. The second example is in a private collection in Germany.EURO 25,000 - 35,000 US $ 22,100 - 30,900
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