Conchoidal Chair (Perspective and elevation sketches)
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
American, born Germany. 1886–1969
early 1940s
An ink-on-paper study by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe exploring the thin, shell-like profile and simple support details for a proposed Conchoidal chair.
The page is mostly empty except for a few quick, looping strokes that conjure an airy, curved seat and fragile support lines—the spare, gestural marks making the chair feel both suggested and imminent.
The sketch exemplifies Mies’s modernist practice of reducing furniture to essential lines and surfaces, treating chair design as a direct extension of architectural thinking and anticipating later molded-seat forms.
Medium
Ink on paper
Dimensions
6 x 8 3/16" (15.2 x 20.8 cm)
Classification
Department
Credit
Mies van der Rohe Archive, gift of the architect
Accession
1129.1974
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