The Barcelona Chair: A favorite of cosmopolite Couples
Posted by SJ on Apr 11th 2021
The Barcelona Chair is one of the favorite pieces of cosmopolitan couples. If you are looking to set a trendy, elegant, décor, is one of your choices by default. We've seen it before, with the house of this cosmopolite couple from Sweden, living in the fascinating Shanghai. Now is the turn of this Californian couple who looked for a definitive place to settle in California and give their home a Mid Century Modern touch.
Michelle Wahlen and Thierry Zamora, an accessory designer and a marketing growth consultant with a lot of travel millage on their passports, decide that it was about time to settle in Marin, California, and to create a homeplace that reflected everything they learned through their trips around the world.
"We specifically wanted an Eichler for the indoor and outdoor lifestyle and mid-century modern design aesthetic that would be the perfect backdrop for our art that we’ve collected from our travel around the world,” Wahlen says.
And the Barcelona Chair is one of the pieces they will use to build that special place they dream of. When it comes to furniture they were well Mid Century Modern fueled. “Our goal was to capture mid-century style but with our own personality and aesthetic so that our home did not look formulaic,” said Michelle. “We also wanted to bring in pieces that represented other cultures in a restrained way that did not overwhelm the minimal modern feel we were going for.”.
The couple opted for top classics Mid Century Modern pieces, like a Barcelona Chair by Mies van der Rohe, a Wassily Chair by Marcel Breuer, among some vintage pieces by Design Within Reach, Modernica, Blu Dot and Room & Board.
Always in the trends, the Barcelona Chair remains as a portrait of beauty, comfort and design.
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