A chair itself is not art, but innovative designs and classic models can be considered as valuable. Valuable, transcendent designs may be exposed in several museums around the world, in what they call retrospectives.

But in the end, a valuable, worthy chair has always an innovation elements in the time of its apparition or release.

Innovation in design is crucial. Materials, manufacture, beauty are key elements to talk about a good design in a chair.

The Barcelona Chair is a great example of breakthrough design. It was released in 1929, and by that time brought with it several elements considered as innovative, as revolutionary. Its iconic “X” frame and experimental approach on materials were very innovative at that time. Nowadays the Barcelona Chair is a highly popular item because of its beauty and is established as a classic accent chair.

Knoll manufacture the original since the 1950s, and established replicas firms like Barcelona Designs and Manhattan Home Designs made their renderings since the 2000s very successfully. From the original pig skin model of the 1929, till the day of today, in high end replicas of aniline leather, the Barcelona Chair has the permanency of classics. Don’t miss the opportunity in Manhattan Home Designs to get the experience of an exceptional piece, at affordable price.

The Barcelona Chair is not really art because it has been created with a functional purpose, but it transcends its functional purpose to become valuable through time.

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