Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe is credited as being one of the designers that began the modernist design movement in the early 1900’s. He worked firstly as an architect, and designed the furniture that would fill his buildings. His work takes heavy advantage of the development of steel and iron as a building material. The strength of the metals allowed Mies to create very minimal frameworks to build around and create lightness in the buildings aesthetic. He was able to imitate the light feeling of his buildings in his furniture by using cantilevers and as few joints and intersections as possible.