Ludwig Mies van der Rohe - Design London Wednesday, September 24, 2008 | Phillips

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  • Provenance

    Estate of Theo Garve, Germany

  • Exhibited

    Building Exhibition, Berlin, 1931

  • Literature

    Ludwig Glaeser, Ludwig Mies Van der Rohe, New York, 1977, p. 112, fig. 20 for the side chair and p. 29 for a similar example of the armchair; Mies Van der Rohe: Furniture and Buildings in Stuttgart, Barcelona, Brno, exh. cat., Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, 1998, p. 32 for the side chair and p. 35 for the armchair

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Two lounge chairs, model nos. MR30 and MR40

c. 1931
Nickel-plated tubular steel, woven cane. 
Each: 80.6 cm. (31 3/4 in.) high
Manufactured by Bamberg Metalwerkstätten, Germany.  Original caning by Lilly Reich.  Underside of armchair with paper labels ‘THEO GARVE’ and ‘ERDAGAR/Hamberg’ and indecipherable letters and underside of side chair with paper label ‘ERDAGAR/Hamberg’ and indecipherable letters (2).

Estimate
£7,000 - 9,000 

Sold for £11,875

Design

25 Sept 2008, 2pm
London