Barcelona chair
a wide, armless chair designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe for the International Exposition in Barcelona, Spain, in 1929, having leather-covered cushions on a double X -shaped frame of gently curved bars of stainless steel, the longer bars of each X forming the front legs and back, the shorter bars forming the seat and rear legs.
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- Barch
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a crescent-shaped sand dune with the convex side in the direction of the wind. noun a crescent-shaped shifting sand dune, convex on the windward side and steeper and concave on the leeward
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- Barchester towers
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