• Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (draughtsman)

Sketch for a cantilever chair

ca. 1937

- Sketches DR1987:0276 and DR1987:0277 depicting cantilever chairs, are fixed to the same cardboard mount.

• dessin conceptuel

Pen and black ink

secondary support: 48.8 x 36.3 cm sheet: 21.3 x 20.3 cm

DR1987:0276

• sketch

• pictorial drawing

- The sheet is fixed to the back of a cardboard mount with DR1987:0277. A vertical line of writing at r. edge of sheet has been partly torn off.

inscribed and dated - by the draughtsman, in pen and black ink, u.l. to u.r.: with illegible inscriptions; and in green pencil, c.: "16 mai" inscribed and dated - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the secondary support, verso, u.l.: "Concoidal or Pleated / c. 1937"; and l.l.: "Concoidal or Pleated Chairs / c. 1937" numbered - by the dealer, in graphite, on the secondary support, verso, u.l.: "MR87 095" [gallery inventory number for DR1987:0276]; and l.l.: "MR87.096" [gallery inventory number for DR1987:0277]

• design d'intérieur

• chairs
• Modern Movement

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