Josef Frank pair of Windsor Chairs, A 945/2F

Product No.: 80110

Interior

Art Deco

1920 / original

€ 10,000 *

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€ 12,000 **

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aaround 1920 for Thonet-Mundus and Jacob & Josef Kohn, four-legged structure made of dark stained beechwood, Height c. 93 cm, width 52 cm, height of seat c. 44 cm. (MHA)

Original condition.

Adolf Loos and Josef Frank adopted this model inspired by 18th-century Windsor chairs. The prototype of this piece of bentwood furniture can be found in the 1904 Thonet catalogue. Josef Frank used this model in several Viennese institutions as well as in the exhibition “Vienna and the Viennese”, held in Vienna’s Messepalast in 1927, where he designed a “model room for the apartments of the city of Vienna”.

Lit.: Ch. Witt-Dörring, Neues Wohnen. Wiener Innenraumgestaltung 1918–1938, Österreichisches Museum für angewandte Kunst, Vienna 1980, p. 46/47, ill. 42, p. 65, cat. 5 - Haus & Garten Frank & Wlach, Graz 2008, p. 114.

Josef Frank ( 1885 - 1967 ) Viennese designer and architect, who is famed for his amazing furniture designs, fabric pattern and architecture. His humanistic philosophy from an eclectic mix in the interiors is highly up to date and shows Josef Frank as pioneer to style high quality pieces in unexpected interior combinations.