Dining Chair, from Purkersdorf Sanatorium
Object Details
- Manufacturer
- J & J Kohn, Vienna, Austria
- Designer
- Josef Hoffmann, Austrian, 1870 – 1956
- Catalogue Status
- Research in Progress
- Description
- Rear legs and squared back frame consist of one piece of tapered, bent beechwood; back is slightly narrower at top than bottom; long, narrow, oval splat framed with bent beechwood and pierced with two columns of fifteen round holes each. Cylindrical front legs. Legs reinforced at seat joint by two carved wooden spheres. Red leather upholstery on seat. Leather-covered studs around perimeter of seat.
- Credit Line
- Museum purchase from Combined Funds and through gift of Crane and Co.
- 1904–1905
- Accession Number
- 1968-6-1
- Restrictions & Rights
- Usage conditions apply
- Type
- furniture
- Decorative Arts
- Object Name
- chair
- Type
- chair
- Medium
- beechwood, leather, metal
- Dimensions
- H x W x D: 98.8 x 44.2 x 47.3cm (38 7/8 x 17 3/8 x 18 5/8in.)
- manufactured in
- Austria
- used in
- Vienna, Austria
- See more items in
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum Collection
- Product Design and Decorative Arts Department
- Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
- Record ID
- chndm_1968-6-1
- Metadata Usage (text)
- Not determined
- GUID (Link to Original Record)
- http://n2t.net/ark:/65665/kq4491fc070-4670-49db-bc3e-de32343a3b71
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