El's been rearranging Snackhambra again and ran across one of his favorite pieces of furniture... his custom BarcELona chair. Yes, BarcELona... at least that's what Mies named it.You see, El didn't only have an impact on painters. No, no one was or is immune to that squiggle... El's iconic embellishment. Not even Mies... student of "form follows function"... less is more... you get the idea.
Maybe it was a case of opposites attract, but no matter how different their approach, El being all about the more, Mies being all about the bare bones, stripped down glory, El and Mies were instantly the best of friends... And so Mies dared to adorn his beloved Barcelona chair with an unneeded, totally frivolous embellishment (although he tried to claim it was a headrest and therefore had function) and renamed it the "BarcELona Chair".
El always loved Mies for that. El also wanted solid gold legs, but Mies drew the line. It was chrome or nothing. Pffft. Oh well.
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The one really big problem with these chairs is that you tend to fall off them when you're drunk.
I hope there's an extra creamy stuffing in the middle of that back.
Does that mean that there are other chairs that you don't tend to fall off when drunk?
I'm asking for a friend.
It appears to me the El was glued to his seat for a while.
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This piece of furniture reminds one that the lust for cake and chocolate is rooted in the infantile desire for excrements and other body liquids.
Leave it to Henning to bring up the Freudian.
ooo oo! now do a Gehry chair!
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