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An armchair No. 6009 (so-called "Vienna Chair"), probably designed by Michael Thonet around 1870,...

Currency:EUR Category:Everything Else / Other Start Price:NA Estimated At:750.00 - 900.00 EUR
An armchair No. 6009 (so-called Vienna Chair ), probably designed by Michael Thonet around 1870,...
An armchair No. 6009 (so-called "Vienna Chair"),
probably designed by Michael Thonet around 1870, the model first mentioned in 1904, manufactured by Thonet around 1920, bent black polished beechwood, canework seat (renewed), height 78 cm, depth 50 cm, width 57 cm, height of seat 46 cm.
Lit.
Das Thonet-Buch, Munich 1987, p. 151 - Sitzgelegenheiten. Bugholz- und Stahlrohrmöbel von Thonet, Germanisches Nationalmuseum, Nuremberg 1989, no. 179, p. 243 - G. Koller, Die Radikalisierung der Phantasie. Design in Österreich, Salzburg 1987, p. 26.
This model was preferred by Le Corbusier and the German Bauhaus architects. The chair stands out for its excellent convenience and modernity of reduced forms.
EURO 750 - 900 US$ 750 - 900
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