While most contemporary furniture of today’s time has a precedent from ancient furniture, the klismos chair has remained virtually unchanged from when it was designed many years ago due to its ergonomic ‘perfect’ design. Not seeing much of the klismos chair design after the Greek period, it begins to become prevalent again 2000 years later with the emergence of neoclassicism in the 1800s, when all things classical were popular. (Fig. 3) The chair was reproduced all over the world by cabinet makers in Scandinavia, as well as Karl Fridrich Schinkel, Erik Gunnar Asplund, Josef Frank and American architect Benjamin Latrobe who designed several klismos chairs including one designed for the oval drawing room in the White House. While most of the chairs that these designers created followed the general shape and form of an original klismos, the sabre legs and radical structural influenced Mies van der Rohe’s design of the Barcelona chair. (Fig.
While most contemporary furniture of today’s time has a precedent from ancient furniture, the klismos chair has remained virtually unchanged from when it was designed many years ago due to its ergonomic ‘perfect’ design. Not seeing much of the klismos chair design after the Greek period, it begins to become prevalent again 2000 years later with the emergence of neoclassicism in the 1800s, when all things classical were popular. (Fig. 3) The chair was reproduced all over the world by cabinet makers in Scandinavia, as well as Karl Fridrich Schinkel, Erik Gunnar Asplund, Josef Frank and American architect Benjamin Latrobe who designed several klismos chairs including one designed for the oval drawing room in the White House. While most of the chairs that these designers created followed the general shape and form of an original klismos, the sabre legs and radical structural influenced Mies van der Rohe’s design of the Barcelona chair. (Fig.