Gebrüder Thonet - A SET OF DINNIG ROOM CHAIRS

Date	around 1904
Period	Vienna, around 1904
Origin	Austrian
Medium	Bent beech and plywood, dyed to rosewood
Dimensions	99 x 42 x 56 cm (39 x 16¹/₂ x 22 inches)
Gallery	Bel Etage, Wolfgang Bauer, Vienna

Description
Technical

A SET OF DINNIG ROOM CHAIRS

consisting of eight chairs and two armchairs

Designed by: Gebrüder Thonet, Vienna, 1904, model no. 511

Executed by: Gebrüder Thonet, Vienna, from 1904 on

Bent beech and plywood seat, stained to rosewood and professionally repolished, excellent condition

Chairs: H 99 cm, SH 46 cm, W 42 cm, D 56 cm; armchairs: H 106cm, SH 46 cm, W 54 cm, D 59 cm

The furniture pieces of the 511 series, which include a desk, chairs, armchairs, a settee and a rocking chair, are amongst the most elegant Jugendstil furniture produced by Gebrüder Thonet. Nevertheless, it has not yet been possible to determine their designer. It is, however, assumed that these pieces were created by Marcel Kammerer. They were most definitely not authored by Josef Hoffmann, as he worked with Thonet’s competitor J. &. J. Kohn.

Date: around 1904
Period: Vienna, around 1904
Origin: Austrian
Medium: Bent beech and plywood, dyed to rosewood
Dimensions: 99 x 42 x 56 cm (39 x 16¹/₂ x 22 inches)
Literature: Gebrüder Thonet sales catalogue, 1904, ill. p. 119; D. E. Ostergard (ed.), Bent Wood and Metal Furniture 1850–1946, 1987, p. 250, fig. 49 c; G. Renzi, Il mobile moderno, Gebrüder Thonet Vienna, Jacob & Josef Kohn, Milan, 2008, p. 122 f.