An armchair,
designed by Otto Wagner for the conference room of the Austrian Postal Savings Bank in 1902, manufactured by Gebrüder Thonet, Vienna, c. 1904, stained and waxed bentwood (beech), tall aluminium sabots, aluminium fittings and rivets, perforated plywood seat, height 72.5 cm, width 54.5 cm, depth 56 cm, height of seat 45 cm. (DR)
Lit.: Gebogenes Holz: Konstruktive Entwürfe. Wien 1840–1910, catalogue, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich 1979, cover illustration - P. Asenbaum, Otto Wagner. Möbel und Innenräume, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Salzburg-Vienna 1984, p. 59 - Geschichte des modernen Möbels, Stuttgart 1978, ill. p. 46 and p. 83 - G. Renzi, Il mobile moderno, Gebrüder Thonet, Jacob& Josef Kohn, Milan 2008, pp. 130–33.
Specialist: Dr. Gerti Draxler
Dr. Gerti Draxler
+43-1-515 60-226
gerti.draxler@dorotheum.at
27.11.2012 - 17:00
- Estimate:
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EUR 45,000.- to EUR 55,000.-
An armchair,
designed by Otto Wagner for the conference room of the Austrian Postal Savings Bank in 1902, manufactured by Gebrüder Thonet, Vienna, c. 1904, stained and waxed bentwood (beech), tall aluminium sabots, aluminium fittings and rivets, perforated plywood seat, height 72.5 cm, width 54.5 cm, depth 56 cm, height of seat 45 cm. (DR)
Lit.: Gebogenes Holz: Konstruktive Entwürfe. Wien 1840–1910, catalogue, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich 1979, cover illustration - P. Asenbaum, Otto Wagner. Möbel und Innenräume, Museum Moderner Kunst, Vienna, Salzburg-Vienna 1984, p. 59 - Geschichte des modernen Möbels, Stuttgart 1978, ill. p. 46 and p. 83 - G. Renzi, Il mobile moderno, Gebrüder Thonet, Jacob& Josef Kohn, Milan 2008, pp. 130–33.
Specialist: Dr. Gerti Draxler
Dr. Gerti Draxler
+43-1-515 60-226
gerti.draxler@dorotheum.at
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| Auction: | Design |
| Auction type: | Saleroom auction |
| Date: | 27.11.2012 - 17:00 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | 17.11. - 27.11.2012 |