A massive oak and leather upholstered 'Havana' armchair

DESIGNED BY HENRY VAN DE VELDE, 1897

細節

A massive oak and leather upholstered 'Havana' armchair
Designed by Henry Van de Velde, 1897
Buttoned red leather-upholstered back, upholstered seat and upswept side arms
39in. (99cm.) high
The underside with traces of paper label for upholsterers Svensson & Son ?, and stencilled number 1547 W

拍品專文

This design is named after the Contintental Havana Cigar Company, whose Berlin interior (reproduced below left), was designed by Van de Velde in 1899. It was also used in the interior of the Bloemenwarf Haus. A chair to this design was exhibited at the Hohenzollern Kunstgewerbehaus, Berlin, in 1900.
See: Pan, Feb/April 1898.
Dekorativen Kunst, 1898.
Pecher, p. 134 and 270.