Many architects saw a building as a total work of art.
They argued that the architect should design everything
in a building, and this included not just fittings but also furniture.
As a result, many modern architects made striking
furniture designs for use in their buildings, and these items also became more widely used.
Mies’s metal-and-leather Barcelona Chair, (18)---- made for the
German Pavilion at the Barcelona Exposition and then
widely copied, is the most famous example. Gerrit
Rietveld’s Red-Blue Chair, a structure of planes and
lines like a three-dimensional Mondrian painting,
symbolizes De Stijl for many people