I bought this book about Mies Van Der Rohe from a second-hand store in Ascotvale for $5.50. Bargain! One quotation in the book particularly tickles my fancy. The author asks Mies what had inspired the form of the Barcelona chair. He says...
I knew that King Alfonso XIII was going to visit us at the International Exposition in Barcelona during the opening in 1929. I therefore designed the Barcelona chair for the king. When I went back to my pavillion shortly before the king's arrival, to my surprise I found a wanderer sitting in the chair. I ordered him out with the following words: "For you I made a bench outside by the pool."
Mies in his Chicago apartment, 1965.
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