Manufactured by Jacob & Josef Kohn, Vienna, no 421/F (armchairs) and no 675/T (table).
Date: around 1905 Period: 20th century Origin: Austria, Vienna Medium: Beech, Stained and polished, Hammered brass, New leather upholstery Signature: Armchairs: old adhesive label Jacob & Josef Kohn
Dimensions: 70.8 x 59.5 x 55.5 cm (27⁷/₈ x 23³/₈ x 21⁷/₈ inches) Literature:
cf Sales catalogue Jacob & Josef Kohn 1916, reprint Munich 1980, ill. p. 48, no 675/T (table) and ill. p. 50, no 421/F (armchair)
cf Exhibition catalogue “Gebogenes Holz. Konstruktive Entwürfe 1840-1910”, Künstlerhaus, Vienna 1979, ill. no 79
cf Eduard F. Sekler, Josef Hoffmann. Das architektonische Werk, Salzburg and Vienna 1982, ill. p. 326, WV 123/II, III (pic. Kunstschau 1908)
cf Giovanni Renzi, Il mobile moderno. Gebrüder Thonet Vienna Jacob & Josef Kohn, Milan 2008, ill. p. 200f
Exhibitions: These models were exhibited at the Vienna Kunstschau 1908 and the World Exhibition in Buenos Aires 1910.
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