Mies Van der Rohe Tugendhat Lounge and Pavilion Lounge Specifications

Not a very well known chair, but without a doubt, one of Mies' best.

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Via MCMI blogpal Ed Driscoll comes this gorgeous video of Mies' iconic Farnsworth House.

I dunno, Ed. You may have switched me from the Glass House with this one.

Enjoy!

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Philip Johnson's Glass House (click for another photospread):

Mies van der Rohe's Farnsworth House (click the pic for a very nice photospread):

Yes, there do seem to be more than a few similarities, don't there? It's because there are. As one commenter here
notes:

According to the tour guide for the Farnsworth house, van de Rohe gave the plans to Johnson prior to building his own house, and Johnson used the plans to build his version.

I think in the end that you have to give pride of place to Mies van der Rohe. As Johnson himself said:

“I pointed out to him (Mies) that it (a glass house) was impossible because you had to have rooms, and that meant solid walls up against the glass, which ruined the whole point. Mies said, ‘I think it can be done.’”

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