San Francisco showroom, which contained a number of Mies van der
Rohe’s Barcelona chairs positioned on a textured carpet around a glass-
topped coffee table, provided a model for countless Modernist domestic
interiors and commercial reception areas in ‘architect-designed’ interior
spaces for years to come. An illustration in the 1967 book Forme et colore
dell’arredamento modernodepicted a highly stylish combination living/
dining room which combined Barcelona chairs with a pedestal table and
chairs designed by Eero Saarinen, also manufactured by Knoll.
Caricaturing the language of the modern interior style some years194 earlier in Interiors magazine George Nelson had described it as compris-
An interior containing a range of furniture items designed by Alvar Aalto, late 1930 s,
illustrated in Mary Davis Gillies’s All About Modern Decorating, 1942.