Stretched Wall Art: 1929 in Scarlet

• Gorgeous silhouette screen print
• Contemporary, frameless wall art
• Sizes start at 16″ square

It’s a chair. Well, a screen print of a chair. But this chair has a history. It’s a story of international intrigue, one man’s desperate attempt to showcase his country to the world, a symbol of a new era of design, and a copyright battle that continues to this day. This Stretched Wall Art: 1929 in Scarlet is a piece of design history floating right there on your wall.

It’s called the Barcelona Chair, and it was designed in 1929 by Mies van der Rohe to be shown in the German Pavilion at the International Exposition of 1929 in Barcelona. It embodied the newly emerging design aesthetic of modernism, and it was intended to show the world Germany’s cultural capacity. It was well-loved, and after the patents expired, Knoll purchased the rights, and they have had copyright problems ever since, the latest case being from 2008.

So there you go. An interesting slice of modern history, all wrapped up in an earth-friendly polyester silk screen. Sizes are available up to 54″ square.