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PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE EUROPEAN COLLECTION
JOSEF HOFFMANN (1870-1956)
Side Chair, model no. 371, designed for the Kunstschau Wien, Vienna, circa 1908
Details
JOSEF HOFFMANN (1870-1956)
Side Chair, model no. 371, designed for the Kunstschau Wien, Vienna, circa 1908
produced by Jacob & Josef Kohn, Austria
stained beech, leather upholstery
42 ½ in. (108 cm) high; 16 in. (40.6 cm) wide; 17 in. (43.3 cm) deep
Side Chair, model no. 371, designed for the Kunstschau Wien, Vienna, circa 1908
produced by Jacob & Josef Kohn, Austria
stained beech, leather upholstery
42 ½ in. (108 cm) high; 16 in. (40.6 cm) wide; 17 in. (43.3 cm) deep
Provenance
Private Collection
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Acquired from the above by the present owner
Literature
Deutsche Kunst und Dekoration, vol. 23, October 1908, p. 37 for the bench
K. Varnedoe, Vienna 1900: Art, Architecture and Design, exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1986, p. 86
D. Ostergard, Bent Wood and Metal Furniture: 1850–1946, exh. cat., The American Federation of Arts, New York, 1987, p. 255, nos. 54-54a, p. 256, no. 54b for similar examples
A. Duncan, Modernism: Modernist Design 1880-1940, Minneapolis, 1998, p. 117 for example of model
R. Price, New Worlds: German and Austrian Art 1890–1940, Neue Galerie, New York, 2001, p. 426, cat. III.36
G. Fahr-Becker, Wiener Werkstätte 1903–1932, Cologne, 2003, p. 25
J. Uhlír, Vom Wiener Stuhl Zum Architektenmöbel: Jacob & Josef Kohn, Thonet und Mundus, Bugholzmöbel vom Secessionismus bis zur Zwischenkriegsmoderne, Vienna, 2009, p. 99, nos. 113, 115 for a similar example
K. Varnedoe, Vienna 1900: Art, Architecture and Design, exh. cat., Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1986, p. 86
D. Ostergard, Bent Wood and Metal Furniture: 1850–1946, exh. cat., The American Federation of Arts, New York, 1987, p. 255, nos. 54-54a, p. 256, no. 54b for similar examples
A. Duncan, Modernism: Modernist Design 1880-1940, Minneapolis, 1998, p. 117 for example of model
R. Price, New Worlds: German and Austrian Art 1890–1940, Neue Galerie, New York, 2001, p. 426, cat. III.36
G. Fahr-Becker, Wiener Werkstätte 1903–1932, Cologne, 2003, p. 25
J. Uhlír, Vom Wiener Stuhl Zum Architektenmöbel: Jacob & Josef Kohn, Thonet und Mundus, Bugholzmöbel vom Secessionismus bis zur Zwischenkriegsmoderne, Vienna, 2009, p. 99, nos. 113, 115 for a similar example
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Alex Heminway