A Windsor armchair mod. no. A 945/2F, designed by Josef Frank
in c. 1927 / 1930 for Thonet-Mundus and Jacob & Josef Kohn, four-legged structure made of dark stained beechwood, marked with Thonet adhesive labels on the underside. Height c. 93 cm, width 52 cm, height of seat c. 44 cm. (MHA)
Original condition.
Adolf Loos and Josef Frank adopted this model inspired by 18th-century Windsor chairs. The prototype of this piece of bentwood furniture can be found in the 1904 Thonet catalogue. Josef Frank used this model in several Viennese institutions as well as in the exhibition “Vienna and the Viennese”, held in Vienna’s Messepalast in 1927, where he designed a “model room for the apartments of the city of Vienna”.
Lit.:
Ch. Witt-Dörring, Neues Wohnen. Wiener Innenraumgestaltung 1918–1938, Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna 1980, p. 46/47, ill. 42, p. 65, cat. 5 - Haus & Garten Frank & Wlach, Graz 2008, p. 114.
Provenance:
Private Collection Germany
Specialist: Mathias Harnisch, MA
Mathias Harnisch, MA
+43-1-515 60-242
Mathias.Harnisch@dorotheum.at
02.10.2019 - 16:00
- Estimate:
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EUR 1,600.- to EUR 2,000.-
A Windsor armchair mod. no. A 945/2F, designed by Josef Frank
in c. 1927 / 1930 for Thonet-Mundus and Jacob & Josef Kohn, four-legged structure made of dark stained beechwood, marked with Thonet adhesive labels on the underside. Height c. 93 cm, width 52 cm, height of seat c. 44 cm. (MHA)
Original condition.
Adolf Loos and Josef Frank adopted this model inspired by 18th-century Windsor chairs. The prototype of this piece of bentwood furniture can be found in the 1904 Thonet catalogue. Josef Frank used this model in several Viennese institutions as well as in the exhibition “Vienna and the Viennese”, held in Vienna’s Messepalast in 1927, where he designed a “model room for the apartments of the city of Vienna”.
Lit.:
Ch. Witt-Dörring, Neues Wohnen. Wiener Innenraumgestaltung 1918–1938, Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna 1980, p. 46/47, ill. 42, p. 65, cat. 5 - Haus & Garten Frank & Wlach, Graz 2008, p. 114.
Provenance:
Private Collection Germany
Specialist: Mathias Harnisch, MA
Mathias Harnisch, MA
+43-1-515 60-242
Mathias.Harnisch@dorotheum.at
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| Auction: | Design |
| Auction type: | Saleroom auction |
| Date: | 02.10.2019 - 16:00 |
| Location: | Vienna | Palais Dorotheum |
| Exhibition: | 27.09. - 02.10.2019 |