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Property from an Important American Collection

Josef Hoffmann

Pair of "Buenos Aires" Armchairs

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April 1, 02:41 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important American Collection

Josef Hoffmann

1870 - 1956

Pair of "Buenos Aires" Armchairs


circa 1909

produced by J. & J. Kohn, Vienna, Austria

beech, fabric upholstery, brass

29 ½ x 30 ⅝ x 28 ¼ in. (75.1 x 78.7 x 71.7 cm) each

Macklowe Gallery, New York, 1989
Jacob & Josef Kohn: Bent-Wood Furniture, cat., 1916, reprinted Munich, 1980, p. 48
Jane Kallir, Viennese Design and the Wiener Werkstätte, London, 1986, p. 73
Leslie Greene Bowman, American Arts & Crafts: Virtue in Design, exh. cat., Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 1990, p. 28 
Adam Lindemann, Collecting Design, Köln, 2010, pp. 70-71