Side chair
Object Details
- Designer
- Peter Behrens, (German, 1868–1940)
- Manufacturer
- Anton Blüggel
- Distributor
- Wertheim Department Store
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Trapezoidal, caned slip seat tapered toward back; four tapered legs of square section, swelling toward foot; paired struts on back and sides; chair back with tapered curved sides, central vertical splat with rectangular depression, surmounted by pierced horizontal rectangular section. Caning on seat not original.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase from General Acquisition Endowment
- 1902
- Accession Number
- 1985-121-1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- furniture
- Decorative Arts
- Side chair
- Medium
- Joined oak, pine, woven rush caning
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 98.4 x 55 x 45 cm (38 3/4 x 21 5/8 x 17 11/16 in.)
- made in
- Berlin, Germany
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1985-121-1
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4ee0ff030-e0e4-4f90-be95-5c481b63db7d
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