Stickback chair | Dorotheum

Estimated value: 1500-1800 EUR

Auction:
Design

Sales date: 2002-12-11

Location:
Vienna, Austria

Lot number: 45

Manufacturer Thonet-Mundus, Vienna

Architonic id

4102072

A stickback chair, Thonet-Mundus, Vienna, around 1925, dark stained beechwood, lathe-turned front legs, moulded seat, with Thonet paper label, height 91 cm, depth 51 cm, width 39 cm, height of seat 44 cm.
A chair model used by Adolf Loos. Compare: "Innenräume von Loos, ein Kinderzimmer aus der Villa Müller in Prag", in: B. Rukschcio, R. Schachel, Adolf Loos, p. 615, fig. 776 - Also Josef Frank used the chair in the library of his apartment, see the photograph of 1932 reproduced in: Neues Wohnen, Österreichisches Museum für Angewandte Kunst, Vienna 1980, p. 36, fig. 11