No Fear of Glass is an institutional solo show featuring limited edition pieces by Rotterdam-based designer Sabine Marcelis for Side Gallery, presented at the Mies van der Rohe Pavilion in Barcelona. The exhibition is the first time Fundacio Mies Van de Rohe has opened its doors to a designer to stage an intervention. Marcelis has used the opportunity to explore how the design ideals and materiality with which the pavilion has been constructed can be translated into the creation of functional furniture pieces. The title of the exhibition responds to ‘Fear of Glass’, the book about Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona Pavilion by Josep Quetglas. Mies van der Rohe was famously asked to not use too much glass in the pavilion, Marcelis’s works in turn are only produced from glass; pushing the materials limits to its extreme. The pieces here seem to be grown and extruded from the architecture itself; two large chaise lounges which are pulled up from the ground by extending the travertine floor to form a base are sliced by a singular sheet of curved glass which is seemingly pulled from the walls. The two materials meet to become sculptural yet functional furniture pieces.