Oscar Niemeyer / Rio Chaise Lounge
https://www.britannica.com/biography/Oscar-Niemeyer
As well of the great masters of modern architecture , neither Oscar
Niemeyer has missed the opportunity to show his commitment to the curve
lines in the furniture design area.
One of his most successful designer projects is an rocking chaise symbolically named Rio. In a unique and unmistakable Niemeyer style, inspired by the feminine curves and his personal relationship with the nature represented by the environment and the city of Rio, a work of masters is created which even as just an exhibit items keep breathlessness every passionate chair designer and especially vintage chairs collector.
Curiosity is certainly the fact that this chair was designed in 1978 together with her daughter Anna Maria Niemeyer.
MIES: ARTIST AND GENTLEMAN
http://miessociety.org/mies/projects/
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969), a German-born
architect and designer, one of the 20th century’s greatest architects. He was a
pioneer of the new generation of architect, that wisely used industrial materials in construction of buildings, as well as their
using for a home and office interior accessories. He was a leading figure in
Berlins avant-garde life, and his designers path was traced simultaneously from
many generation of architects, when he reveilles his genius Barcelona Pavilion
building.
Photo credit: Werner Blaser http://www.blaserarchitekten.ch/
Among many of his powerful and in the same time very
minimalistic creation in architecture, he spend a lot of time to study and design a new models of chairs, with tubular
metal chrome in combination with the leather.
Unlike other of his colleague from Bauhaus, he even
dare to put the screw on the outside of the
tube just like in the case of his MR 20, but that detail could not minimize sophisticated
curve that he made and the double tube that gives this chair a massive but in
the same time sophisticated look that was a step further in cooperation with
other models that was made by Mart Stam , Marcel Breuer , Dieckmann, Lily Reich...
Bauhaus furniture nowadays are fashionable and many
designer combine that items with other style or just put them in the interior
as an decoration because of their superb design, that even after 50 years or more still stay breathless
every real lover of furniture design. The tubular steel furniture of the
1920s and 1930 s in that time presents a new wave in furniture design that put
in the history all the massive furniture and decorative trinkets. The structural
clarity of tubular steel furniture embodies a new approach in chairs design where's the chairs pick up
the lights and the interior in his metal reflections that gives the furniture a new 4th dimension in
space.
