Erik Gunnar Asplund, Elevations and perspective for a chair for the Göteburg law Court Annex, 1934-37. Graphite and coloured pencil on tracing paper.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, 1969. Studies for a cantilevered chair (The Brno chair), c. 1935. Graphite on tracing paper.
Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) and Erik Gunnar Asplund (1885-1940) each designed furnishings for their buildings when possible. For the Tugendhat House at Brno, Czechoslovakia, Mies produced the classic cantilevered chair that remains in production to this day. Asplund designed the chair shown here for his annex to the Göteburg Courthouse in Sweden. These roughly contemporaneous sketches reflect the wide range of approaches possible within modernism, as do the buildings for which each was designed.cca collection
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