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LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE, 1886-1969 Rare and import

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LUDWIG MIES VAN DER ROHE, 1886-1969

Rare and important desk, ca. 1933 Macassar ebony-veneered wood, maple, maple-veneered wood, iron. Possibly manufactured by Anton Possenbacher, Munich, Germany. 28 ¾ x 55 &x215B; x 28 ¾ in. (73 x 140 x 73 cm.)

Provenance: Employee at the Mies van der Rohe studio, Am Karlsbad 24, Berlin; Private Collection, Berlin

Literature: Alexander von Vegesack and Matthias Kries eds., Mies van der Rohe, Architecture and Design in Stuttgart, Barcelona, Brno, exh. cat., Vitra Design Museum, 1998, pp. 149, 153 and 205 for similar examples; Bauhaus Furniture A Legend Reviewed, exh. cat., Bauhaus Archiv Museum fur Gestaltung, Berlin, 2002, p. 308 for a similar example; Christiane Lange, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe & Lilly Reich: Mobel und Raume, Krefeld, 2006, p. 119, fig. 1 for a similar example; Birgit Schulte and Helmut Reuter, Mies und das Neue Wohnen, Raume/Mobel/Fotografie, Ostfildern, 2008, illustrated p. 130, ill. 129 and pp. 129-131 for further discussion

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