Brno Chair Tubular
Summary
Sit back and relax in the iconic Brno Chair from Knoll. Celebrated as a 20th-century masterpiece, this chair boasts a hand-buffed stainless steel frame around an inner hardwood frame for exceptional durability. Available with flat or tubular arms and with your choice of a thin or thick seat, it’s available in a variety of luxurious Knoll Textiles and Spinneybeck leathers. A Dymetrol seat suspension completes the package for unparalleled comfort.
Dimensions
245 Brno Chair – Tubular
Width: 22.75″
Depth: 22.5″
Height: 31.5″
Seat Height: 17.25″
Arm Height: 25.75″
Product story
Placed at dining tables, desks and side tables, there are thought to have been 24 Tubular Brno Chairs in the original Villa Tugendhat. Thanks to a collaboration with the Mies van der Rohe Archives at The Museum of Modern Art, Knoll continues to produce each chair to the original specifications.
Villa Tugendhat is the summation of Mies van der Rohe’s ideas incorporated at every level of design. Architectural historian Peter Blake explains in his book Master Builders: “As in every one of his designs, from skyscrapers to dining chairs, Mies reduces each object to its essential elements, and then refined each detail to a point of almost breathtaking beauty and eloquence. There was nothing in this house that did not reflect this process of distillation to the point of utter perfection.”
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of architecture, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe brought a less-is-more approach to everything he designed, from furniture to skyscrapers. “Architecture is a language,” wrote Mies van der Rohe. “When you are very good you can be a poet.”
