Word.ws English Dictionary

Barcelona chair

Barcelona chair noun: a chair, designed by Mies van der Rohe, that has a curved metal frame consisting of a gentle curve that shapes the back and front legs intersecting with a shallow S-shaped curve that shapes the seat and back legs, no arms, and padded leather cushions.

barcelona chair: a chair, designed by Mies van der Rohe, that has a curved metal frame consisting of a gentle curve...
Image: sailko, CC BY 2.5, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

Barcelona chair (plural Barcelona chairs)

  1. A chair, designed by Mies van der Rohe, that has a curved metal frame consisting of a gentle curve that shapes the back and front legs intersecting with a shallow S-shaped curve that shapes the seat and back legs, no arms, and padded leather cushions.
    • The Barcelona Chair was designed in 1929 for the German Pavilion at the International Exhibition in Barcelona, Spain.2001, Kimberly Elam, Geometry of Design: Studies in Proportion and Composition
    • The Barcelona chair commanded the staggering price of $550, however, and that was wholesale.2009, Tom Wolfe, From Bauhaus to Our House, page 48

Examples of Barcelona chair in a sentence

  • Marble, travertine, brass and plate glass were deployed to majestic effect, and within the cool, calm interior the Barcelona chairs and accompanying ottomans took on a monumental presence.2009, Design Museum Enterprise Limited, Fifty Chairs that Changed the World:
  • Following his move to America in 1938, he did not come up with any new furniture designs; the Barcelona chair remains his most famous work.2013, Anne Massey, Chair, page 65:

Forms of Barcelona chair

pluralBarcelona chairs

Origin of Barcelona chair

From Barcelona, Spain, where the International Exhibition of 1929, at which the chair was first exhibited, was held.

Questions about Barcelona chair

What does Barcelona chair mean?
Barcelona chair means a chair, designed by Mies van der Rohe, that has a curved metal frame consisting of a gentle curve that shapes the back and front legs intersecting with a shallow S-shaped curve that shapes the seat and back legs, no arms, and padded leather cushions.
How do you use Barcelona chair in a sentence?
Marble, travertine, brass and plate glass were deployed to majestic effect, and within the cool, calm interior the Barcelona chairs and accompanying ottomans took on a monumental presence.
What part of speech is Barcelona chair?
Barcelona chair is a noun.
What is the plural of Barcelona chair?
The plural of Barcelona chair is Barcelona chairs.

Words near Barcelona chair in the dictionary

  1. barcarolles
  2. Barcas
  3. Barce
  4. Barcelo
  5. Barcelona
  6. Barcelona chair
  7. Barcelona chairs
  8. Barcelonan
  9. Barcelonans
  10. Barcelonia
  11. Barcelonian

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: Barcelona chair (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Cite this entry: “Barcelona chair.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/barcelona_chair. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.