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137 of these chairs were produced in 1903 for The Willow Tea Rooms. Virtually all examples were quickly modified by the addition of a top slat at the back to prevent damage to the top bowed slat through constant lifting.
The impact of Mackintosh's work on the emerging Viennese movement was profound. Mackintosh had first used purely geometric motifs as early as 1898, and his stark black and white interior shown in the Eighth Secession Exhibition in 1900 had an immediate and direct influence on Viennese interior designs (see following lot). Over the next few years, maintained through Mackintosh's patronage by Fritz Wärndorfer, the contact between Mackintosh and Vienna remained close; both he and Hoffmann were to develop a pronounced rectilinear approach to design in which the direction of influence became almost impossible to determine.
The impact of Mackintosh's work on the emerging Viennese movement was profound. Mackintosh had first used purely geometric motifs as early as 1898, and his stark black and white interior shown in the Eighth Secession Exhibition in 1900 had an immediate and direct influence on Viennese interior designs (see following lot). Over the next few years, maintained through Mackintosh's patronage by Fritz Wärndorfer, the contact between Mackintosh and Vienna remained close; both he and Hoffmann were to develop a pronounced rectilinear approach to design in which the direction of influence became almost impossible to determine.