Important 20th Century Design

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Lot 545
  • 545

Josef Hoffmann

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Description

  • Josef Hoffman
  • "seven ball" side chair, model no. 371
  • with partial paper label K.k. Osterreichische Staatsbahnen von WSETIN zu Lemberg
  • lacquered and laminated bentwood

Provenance

Richard Feigen, New York

Literature

Dorothee Müller, Klassiker des modernen Möbeldesign, Munich, 1980, p.105

Daniele Baroni and Antonio D'Auria, Josef Hoffmann e la Wiener Werkstätte, Milan, 1981, p.107

Dr. Christian Meyer, ed., Josef Hoffmann, Architect and Designer 1870-1956, Galerie Metropol, Vienna, 1981, p. 22

Derek E. Ostergard, Mackintosh to Mollino: Fifty Years of Chair Design, New York, 1984, p. 27

Derek E. Ostergard, Bentwood and Metal Furniture: 1850-1946, New York, 1987, p. 255 cat. no. 54

Ghenete Zelleke, Eva B. Ottillinger and Nina Stritzler, Against the Grain, Bentwood Furniture from the Collection of Fern and Manfred Steinfeld, The Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, 1993, p. 86

Alexander von Vegesack, Peter Dunas and Mathias Schwartz-Clauss, eds., 100 Masterpieces from the Vitra Design Museum Collection, Wiel am Rheim, 1996, p. 182