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JOSEF HOFFMANN | "SITZMASCHINE" CHAIR, MODEL NO. 670

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October 8, 05:01 PM GMT

Estimate

8,000 - 12,000 USD

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Description

JOSEF HOFFMANN

"SITZMASCHINE" CHAIR, MODEL NO. 670


circa 1905

produced by J. & J. Kohn, Vienna, Austria

stained beech, iron

42½ x 25¼ x 32½ in. (107.9 x 64.1 x 82.5 cm) as shown

Private Collection, California

Christie's New York, June 9, 2005, lot 72

Acquired from the above by the present owner

Daniele Baroni and Antonio d'Auria, Josef Hoffmann e la Weiner Werkstätte, Milan, 1981, pp. 63 and 101

Derek E. Ostergard, Bentwood and Metal Furniture: 1850-1946, New York, 1987, p. 258

Christian Brandstätter, Wiener Werkstätte: Design in Vienna 1903-1932, New York, 2003, pp. 82-83