Product sheet Armchair Château de Laeken
Designer:
Jean-Joseph Chapui
Year: 1805
Jean-Joseph Chapui
Year: 1805
An armchair, Jean-Joseph Chapui, 1805,
for the Château de Laeken in Brussels, grey painted beechwood and laminated beechwood, decorated with gold painted ornaments, leaf-shaped bronze feet, original canework seat, impressed signature CHAPUI, height 90 cm, width 55 cm, depth 54 cm, height of seat 41 cm.
Original condition.
A technologically revolutionary chair and one of the early pieces of furniture made of laminated wood.
Lit. D. Ostergard, Bent Wood and Metal Furniture, NY 1986, p. 20 - Ch. Wilk, Thonet, 150 Years of Furniture, London 1980, p. 10 - A. v. Vegesack, Thonet, Pionier des Industrie-Designs 1830–1900, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein 1996, fig. 3 - B. Willscheid, Von Roentgen bis Thonet, Museum Neuwied, 1998, p. 12 - D. Ledous-Lebard, Le Moblier Français du 19ème Siècle, Paris 1889, p. 20.
for the Château de Laeken in Brussels, grey painted beechwood and laminated beechwood, decorated with gold painted ornaments, leaf-shaped bronze feet, original canework seat, impressed signature CHAPUI, height 90 cm, width 55 cm, depth 54 cm, height of seat 41 cm.
Original condition.
A technologically revolutionary chair and one of the early pieces of furniture made of laminated wood.
Lit. D. Ostergard, Bent Wood and Metal Furniture, NY 1986, p. 20 - Ch. Wilk, Thonet, 150 Years of Furniture, London 1980, p. 10 - A. v. Vegesack, Thonet, Pionier des Industrie-Designs 1830–1900, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein 1996, fig. 3 - B. Willscheid, Von Roentgen bis Thonet, Museum Neuwied, 1998, p. 12 - D. Ledous-Lebard, Le Moblier Français du 19ème Siècle, Paris 1889, p. 20.
estimated value:
18.000-25.000 EUR
Auction:
Design
Sales date: 2002-12-11
location: Vienna, Austria
Lot number: 11
18.000-25.000 EUR
Auction:
Design
Sales date: 2002-12-11
location: Vienna, Austria
Lot number: 11
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