A truly iconic design from one of Florence Knoll’s trusted mentors during the Bauhaus era, the armchair was created in 1929 for the Tugendhat family villa in Brno, Czech Republic. Famous for its cantilevered frame, the chair’s pleasingly kinetic structure invites movement as it gently bounces with the sitter.
Plush cushions offer long-lasting comfort in your living space, upholstered in luxurious Knoll Velvet or your own choice from a range of premium fabrics and leathers, while leather strapping adds further support and visual interest. Whether placed in a chic lounge area or a secluded corner of calm, the Tugendhat - steeped in design history, reimagined for today - will quickly become your new favourite place to retreat.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, more commonly referred to simply as “Mies” stands alongside the likes of Le Corbusier and Frank Lloyd Wright as one of the godfathers of modernist architecture. Growing up in Aachen, and following a brief tenure in his father’s stone carving shop Mies worked his way through the local design firms and found himself in Berlin, where he joined the office of interior designer Bruno Paul, before taking an apprenticeship at the studio of famed architect Peter Behrens. Whilst there Mies worked alongside Le Corbusier and Walter Gropius, the latter of which with whom he would go on to found the Bauhaus in the years that followed.
In the wake of the rise of the Third Reich, Mies, alongside many of his contemporaries in design, the arts and cinema, left Germany for the US, where he would further solidify his reputation as one of the great architects and designers of the 20th Century. His aphorism "less is more" serves as a mantra and a rallying cry for a major contingency of the design world.
