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Mies van der Rohe (1886–1969) is, without doubt, one of the pioneering masters of modern architecture. Equally significant, though on a smaller scale, were his forays into furniture design. Like any good architect, Mies knew that architecture and furniture inevitably enter into dialogue and influence each other (he applied his knowledge of recent industrial technologies to many of the chairs and tables he produced) and, consequently, his early designs, from the mid-1920s onwards, were conceived for specific interiors. At first, furniture design seemed more daunting than architecture: “There are endless possibilities and many problems—the chair has to be light, it has to be strong, it has to be comfortable. It is almost easier to build a skyscraper than a chair,” he once said. But Mies quickly found innovative ways to marry luxurious traditional fabrics and leathers with
