Ludwig Mies van der Rohe & Lilly Reich: Furniture and Interiors

Businessman and art collector Hermann Lange maintained a close working relationship with Mies van der Rohe and interior designer Lilly Reich, their associations involving family, friends, and Lange’s company. From 1927 to 1930, this resulted in structures such as Lange’s own home, Haus Lange in Krefeld, as well as the “Crous” apartment for Lange’s eldest daughter and her husband in Berlin. The couple took the decor and furnishings for this apartment—down to the bell plate—to all of their later apartments, into the nineties. This volume is the first to present many of van der Rohe’s and Reich’s furniture pieces, as well as the original decor from Haus Lange (now a museum), thus providing new insights into the collaboration of the two designers. When we first moved into our grown-up home, we would look at this book for inspiration. There are lot of reasons these ideas don’t work in a 19th-century 2-family colonial, but certain elements and principles can still sneak in. A very good reference.