Designer of the Week - Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Posted by Manhattan Home Design on Oct 22nd 2018
German-born architect Mies van der Rohe was one of the directors of the influential Bauhaus school in the years before World War II. He was born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies and later renamed himself “van der Rohe” as an effort to distance himself from his family heritage and become his own design brand.
His name was a combination of the Dutch patronymic “van der” and “R
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