A RARE AND IMPORTANT EBONIZED WOOD AND ALUMINUM STOOL
A RARE AND IMPORTANT EBONIZED WOOD AND ALUMINUM STOOL

OTTO WAGNER, FOR THE STERREICHISCHE POSTSPARKASSE, THONET, CIRCA 1904-1906

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A RARE AND IMPORTANT EBONIZED WOOD AND ALUMINUM STOOL
Otto Wagner, for the sterreichische Postsparkasse, Thonet, circa 1904-1906
18in. (47cm.) high, 15in. (39.4cm.) wide, 15in. (39.4cm.) deep
branded THONET and with Thonet paper label
Provenance
Paul Asenbaum, Vienna

Lot Essay

cf. Christopher Wilk, Thonet: 150 Years of Furniture, 1980, p. 64, fig. 72; Paul Asenbaum et al., Otto Wagner: Mbel und Innenrume, 1984, p. 210, fig. 267; Derek E. Ostergard, ed., Bent Wood and Metal Furniture 1850-1946, 1987, p. 248, cat. no. 48; Muse d'Orsay, Catalogue sommaire illustr de arts dcoratifs, 1988, p. 220, fig. OAO 1052 for illustrations of this model, designed for the main banking hall of the Austrian Postal Savings Bank.

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