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The Barcelona Chair: Always Relevant

Posted by SJ on Feb 12th 2021

One of the finest designs of furniture ever made, the Barcelona Chair has always managed to stay relevant in the trends of décor and architecture, and is not only due to its huge popularity and sales across the world, but because of its impact on modern culture and the enthusiasm for the Mid Century Modern style, that it doesn't seems to fade. 

And this impact you can assess it in the mainstream media and the social media. Let's take a look in the mainstream media, to see how the Barcelona Chair was relevant through 2020 and 2021.

2020: A year of relevance for The Barcelona Chair

In the past year, the Barcelona Chair was quite relevant with lots of content in the mainstream media, with a variety of articles that make us clear how The Barcelona Chair has a global impact.

At least 40 articles mentioned the Barcelona Chair in the year 2020. This doesn't include the permanent websites of dealers, or furniture stores, but press notes with comments, articles, top tens and so on. Most of the sources are Online Magazines (especially man's magazines), Design Magazines (like Architectural Digest, for example).

2021: A promising year

2021 has only one a month and a half, but it looks promising . In this period, the

Barcelona Chair was mentioned at least in 6 articles in men magazines, design magazines and mainstream media.

And what does the articles about the Barcelona Chair are about?

Mostly the articles about the Barcelona Chair are related to Mid Century Modern Style: What are the essentials if you want to be in the top of trends (Being the Barcelona Chair one of the indispensable ones.

Besides, Architectural and Design magazines articles talk about historical sketches on the creation of the Barcelona Chair by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and its Barcelona Collection, among the sustained interest that his great contributions left to the Architecture and the landscape of Chicago.

Its remarkable, too, the renewed interest of enthusiasts and academics, for the real contribution of Lilly Reich to the furniture creative period of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe during the time of the Barcelona Collection and the International Exposition of Barcelona.

And it looks that this avid interest and fascination for the Barcelona Chair still has a long way to go.

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