Key facts

Product:
Stickback chair
Manufacturer:
Dorotheum
Architonic ID:
4102072
Country:
Austria
Category:
Furnishings

Product description

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