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Property from an Important European Collection

Josef Hoffman, Desk

Auction Closed

December 12, 06:50 PM GMT

Estimate

12,000 - 18,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Property from an Important European Collection

Josef Hoffmann

Desk


circa 1905

model no. 500/6

produced by J. & J. Kohn, Austria

stained beech, vinyl, brass

with the producer's original paper label

38 ½ x 42 ¾ x 22 ¾ in. (97.8 x 108.6 x 57.8 cm)

Dorothee Müller, Klassiker des modernen Möbeldesign, Munich, 1980, p. 69 (for a related example)

Ghenete Zelleke, Eva B. Otllinger and Nina Stritzler, Against the Grain: Bentwood Furniture from the Collection of Fren and Manfred Steinfeld, Chicago, 1993, p. 85

Giovanni Renzi, Il Mobile Moderno: Grebrüder Thonet Vienna, Jacob & Josef Kohn, Milan, 2008, pp. 202-203