Designer Sabine Marcelis channels Mies van der Rohe's use of glass as inspiration for her exhibition in Barcelona

Rotterdam-based designer Sabine Marcelis creates a visually mesmerizing exhibition playing with glass and its material capabilities in No Fear of Glass. Currently exhibited at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona, Sabine sought to create pieces in response to a request made to Mies during the construction of his 1929 German Pavilion. 

According to a press statement from the exhibition, Mies was asked to "not use too much glass." For this special exhibition, Marcelis uses the material in ways that push its materiality and structural composition. Marcelis creates two large, curved, chaise, glass lounge pieces with tints of vibrantly fading color. A single glass sheet is inserted into solid travertine pieces that support the glass in place. In addition to the lounge pieces, the pavilion is filled with chrome columns, a mirrored-glass column, and a curved glass fountain loc...