Property from a Private Collection Josef Hoffmann Armchair, designed for the Purkersdorf Sanatorium circa 1905 Stained beech, leather. 38 1/4 x 23 1/4 x 20 1/2 in. (97.2 x 59.1 x 52.1 cm) Produced by Jacob & Josef Kohn, Austria. Underside of seat with firm's printed label and impressed with J&J KOHN/WSETIN-AUSTRIA.
Provenance House of Decorative Arts, Ltd., New York Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1991 Exhibited The Museum of Modern Art, New York, "Special Benefit at the MoMA," February 15, 1995 Literature Giovanna Massobrio and Paolo Portoghesi Casa Thonet: Storia dei mobili in legno curvato, Rome, 1980, p. 65 for a reprint of the present model in the Jacob & Josef Kohn sales catalogue, 1906 Ghenete Zelleke, et al., Against the Grain: Bentwood Furniture From the Collection of Fern and Manfred Steinfeld, exh. cat., Art Institute of Chicago, 1993, p. 82 Giovanni Renzi, Il Mobile Moderno: Gebrüder Thonet Vienna, Jacob & Josef Kohn, Cinisello Balsamo, 2008, pp. 66-67
Property from a Private Collection Josef Hoffmann Armchair, designed for the Purkersdorf Sanatorium circa 1905 Stained beech, leather. 38 1/4 x 23 1/4 x 20 1/2 in. (97.2 x 59.1 x 52.1 cm) Produced by Jacob & Josef Kohn, Austria. Underside of seat with firm's printed label and impressed with J&J KOHN/WSETIN-AUSTRIA.
Provenance House of Decorative Arts, Ltd., New York Acquired from the above by the present owner, 1991 Exhibited The Museum of Modern Art, New York, "Special Benefit at the MoMA," February 15, 1995 Literature Giovanna Massobrio and Paolo Portoghesi Casa Thonet: Storia dei mobili in legno curvato, Rome, 1980, p. 65 for a reprint of the present model in the Jacob & Josef Kohn sales catalogue, 1906 Ghenete Zelleke, et al., Against the Grain: Bentwood Furniture From the Collection of Fern and Manfred Steinfeld, exh. cat., Art Institute of Chicago, 1993, p. 82 Giovanni Renzi, Il Mobile Moderno: Gebrüder Thonet Vienna, Jacob & Josef Kohn, Cinisello Balsamo, 2008, pp. 66-67
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