- Product:
- Armchair Château de Laeken
- Manufacturer:
- Dorotheum
- Architonic ID:
- 4102053
- Launched:
- 1805
- Country:
- Austria
- Category:
- Furnishings
- Address
- Telephone
- Website
Key facts
Product description
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.