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Café Samt und Seide, Die Mode der Dame trade fair, Berlin, 1927
the actual competition entry. In terms of form, Mies once again used the steel
eleton structure with freestanding columns and large glass surfaces that had worked so wel
t, however, was never
consi
in the German Pavilion in Barcelona and Tugendhat House. The
roof hall for the
an of the board
façade and steel
frame windows housed offices and storerooms. The dye works were located in the attached
hall. The ensemble was the only new building to be constructed after the company was
founded in 1920 and used by all of the businesses involved in the corporation. In 1935,
two additional stories were added, as Mies had originally planned. The structure has been
A year later, Mies designed and constructed a factory bui
Vereinigte Seidenwebereien AG in Krefeld lfig. 7), whose fo
was Hermann Lange. The two-story complex with an evenly
preserved in this state to this day
