A pair of Jacob and Joseph Kohn beechwood armchairs, designed by Josef Hoffmann, stained to simulate mahogany, the bentwood rounded rectangular backs enclosing inlaid oval splats above oval seats with pierced grille motif on square tapering legs headed with oval ball motifs, each branded JJ Kohn, Wien, Austria.
See Illustration
Cf. Die Kunst, Vol.18, 1908, pp. 53-9, for similar example illustrated.
Hoffmann used similar chairs to furnish the Nursery at the Palais Stoclet, built for Adolphe Stocklet in 1905.
A pair of Jacob and Joseph Kohn beechwood armchairs, designed by Josef Hoffmann, stained to simulate mahogany, the bentwood rounded rectangular backs enclosing inlaid oval splats above oval seats with pierced grille motif on square tapering legs headed with oval ball motifs, each branded JJ Kohn, Wien, Austria.
See Illustration
Cf. Die Kunst, Vol.18, 1908, pp. 53-9, for similar example illustrated.
Hoffmann used similar chairs to furnish the Nursery at the Palais Stoclet, built for Adolphe Stocklet in 1905.
