There are only a handful of architects in contemporary history whose names are widely recognized. Think Zaha Hadid, known for her futuristic, sinewy forms that seem to defy structural logic (see ...

For the Barcelona Pavilion, that methodology spawned, among other furnishings, the Barcelona chair, a lounge seat ... adhering to original sketches with “exacting precision,” according to ...

Often mistaken as a product of mid-century modernism, the Barcelona chair was in fact created for the 1929 international exposition hosted in its namesake city, as part of the German Pavilion.