Barcelona chair [SEP] designer
Barcelona chair
The Barcelona chair is a chair designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich. It was originally designed for the German Pavilion, that country's entry for the International Exposition of 1929, which was hosted by Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain. It was first used in Villa Tugendhat, a World Heritage Site designed by Mies van der Rohe in the city of Brno (Czech Republic).
Materials and manufacture.
The frame was initially designed to be bolted together, but was redesigned in 1950 using
Alberto Cairo
Alberto Cairo is a Spanish information designer and professor. Cairo is the Knight Chair in Visual Journalism at the School of Communication of the University of Miami.
Education.
Cairo holds a BA in Journalism (from the University of Santiago de Compostela) and MA and PhD from the Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (in Barcelona).
Work.
Cairo worked as a data-journalist and information designer at El Mundo, Spain's second largest printed daily newspaper, and he was the director for Infographics and