JOSEF HOFFMANN (1870-1956)

A SIDE CHAIR, CIRCA 1906

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JOSEF HOFFMANN (1870-1956)
A SIDE CHAIR, CIRCA 1906
model no. 371, executed by J.&J. Kohn, stained beech
43 in. (109.2 cm.) high

Provenance

Sotheby's, New York, 11 December 2003, lot 546.

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Lot Essay

cf. Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, vol. 23, 1908, p. 37 for a chair of this model;
D. Baroni, A. D'Auria, Josef Hoffmann e la Wiener Werkstätte, Milan, 1981, p. 107;
K. Varnedoe, Vienna 1900: Art, Architecture and Design, New York, 1986, p. 86;
G. Fahr-Becker, Wiener Werkstätte 1903-1932, Cologne, 2003, p. 25 for another chair of this model;
G. Renzi, Il Mobile Moderno: Gebrüder Thonet Vienna, Milan, 2008, pp. 206-207 for examples of this chair model.

View of the Kunstschau building, Vienna, in 1908 showing a versions of this chair with armrests.

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