BRNO, Czech Republic (AP) – It was completed in 1930, a Modernist masterpiece by legendary German architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe. But Villa Tugendhat’s early history was rocked by the turbulence ...

Among architect, interior designer and academic Mies van der Rohe‘s many talents was an innate ability to refine an object’s form without making it feel too cold and clinical. Regarding his furniture ...

Gift Article 10 Remaining As a subscriber, you have 10 articles to gift each month. Gifting allows recipients to access the article for free. This spring, with the 20th anniversary of the rescue of a ...

From the street, it doesn’t look like anything special. Most tourists trying to find this UNESCO World Heritage site are usually looking for a grand European classical villa, so they often walk right ...

Though they were built for two very different purposes and exist nearly 1,000 miles apart, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion in Spain and Villa Tugendhat in Brno, Czechia, bear striking ...

Unlike the Barcelona Chair, a mainstay of Knoll’s collection for decades, the Tugendhat Chair, also designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in 1929, had been out of production since 1979 until the ...