The Brno chair (model number MR50) is a modernist cantilever chair designed by Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich in 1929-1930 for the bedroom of the Tugendhat House in Brno, Czech Republic. The design was based on similar chairs created by Mies van der Rohe working with Lilly Reich, such as the MR20 chair with wicker seat from 1927; all building on earlier designs of Mart Stam.

The Brno chair has become a modern furniture classic. It has very clean lines, consisting of a steel frame in a single piece, bent into a C-shape from the middle of the back, round past the front edge of seat (to create arms), and back under the seat to create a cantilever, with taut seat and back upholstered in leather. There are two versions of the chair, one in tubular steel and the other in flat steel. The metal was originally polished stainless steel; some modern examples are chrome-plated plain steel.

The Brno chair was selected by Dan Cruickshank as one of his 80 man-made "treasures" in the 2005 BBC series, Around the World in 80 Treasures.

• Barcelona chair
• Tugendhat chair

• Brno chair at the Metropolitan Museum of Modern Art

v t e Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Berlin years (1907–1938)	Villa Wolf (1925–1926; destroyed, 1945) Weissenhof Estate (four homes) (1927–1928) Barcelona Pavilion (1928–1929; reconstructed, 1986) (with Lilly Reich) Haus Lange and Haus Esters (1928–1930) Villa Tugendhat (1928–1930) (with Lilly Reich) Lemke House (1933)
United States (1939–1959)	Promontory Apartments (1949) Farnsworth House (1945–1951) Carr Memorial Chapel (1949–1952) Lake Shore Drive Apartments (1949–1951) Crown Hall (1950–1956) 900-910 North Lake Shore (completion, 1956) Lafayette Pavilion Apartments (1955–1958) Seagram Building (1955–1958) (with Philip Johnson) Cullinan Hall and the Brown Pavilion, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (1958; 1974) Lafayette Park (co-authorship) (1959) Pavilion and Colonnade Apartments (1958–1960)
Worldwide (1960–1969)	Bacardi Office Building (Mexico) (1958–1961) One Charles Center (1962) Dirksen Federal Building (1960–1964) Highfield House Condominium (1964) Lafayette Towers Apartments East (1963) Lafayette Towers Apartments West (1963) Westmount Square (Canada) (1964–1967) New National Gallery (Germany) (1968) Richard King Mellon Hall (1968) Toronto-Dominion Centre (1964–1969) Nuns' Island gas station (Canada) (1969) Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Library (1972) IBM Plaza (1973) Kluczynski Federal Building (1960–1974)
Furniture	Weissenhof chair (1927) (with Lilly Reich) Barcelona chair (1929) (with Lilly Reich) Brno chair (1929–1930) (with Lilly Reich) Tugendhat chair (1929–1930) (with Lilly Reich)
Quotes	God is in the detail Less is more
Related	Bauhaus Walter Gropius Lilly Reich (collaborator) Portrait of Sir David Webster (1971 painting)
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