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    MR Table

    Ludwig Mies van der Rohe ca. 1927

    The MR Collection represents some of the earliest steel furniture designs by Mies van der Rohe. Four examples of the MR side table were included in the famous Tugendhat house. The design has been manufactured by Knoll since 1977.

    Finishes

    • color Clear Glass
    • color Stainless Steel, Polished
    • color Onyx Ultra Matte
    • color Dark Red Ultra Matte
    • color White Ultra Matte

    Dimensions

    Additional Info

    Construction and Details
    • Top: Half-inch-thick plate glass
    • Frame: Tubular and rectangular stainless steel welded into a single piece, and offered in classic chrome or ultra-matte powder-coated finishes
    • The 2024 introductions of ultra-matte dark red, onyx, and white reframe the iconic form of this Bauhaus-era table
    • An original Ludwig Mies van der Rohe design, the frame is stamped with the Knoll logo and designer’s signature, ensuring lifetime authentication.
    Sustainable Design and Environmental Certification
    • Learn more about MR Table product certifications and materials at Ecomedes.

     

    Regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of architecture, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s ‘less-is-more’ approach to design was the gold standard for many generations of modern architecture. His legendary career started humbly at his father’s stonemasonry business, giving him an early appreciation of material and structure. From there he apprenticed with furniture designer Bruno Paul in Berlin before joining the office of Peter Behrens, an architect and painter at the forefront of the modern movement.

    In 1912, Mies established his own office in Berlin. Through furniture, residential projects and extraordinary, yet unrealized concepts for skyscrapers, he gained recognition as a leader of the German modern movement. As such, he was selected to design the German Pavilion at the 1929 International Exposition in Barcelona.

    Mies served as Vice President of the Deutsher Werkbund and Director of the Bauhaus from 1930 until it closed in 1933. He immigrated to the United States in 1938 to become the director of architecture at the Armour Institute (later the Illinois Institute of Technology). From his Chicago-based practice, Mies designed a portfolio of buildings that changed the face of American institutional architecture ― the most notable examples being the IIT campus and the Seagram Building in New York.