Details

Worn smooth by decades of use, this armchair carries the quiet authority of café interiors built for conversation, smoke, and long afternoons.

Produced in Central Europe in the early twentieth century, the chair belongs to the Viennese bentwood tradition established by Thonet and its contemporaries, using steam bent beech to achieve continuous curves through structure rather than joinery. Looping arms, a balloon back, circular seat rail and ring stretcher place it firmly in the mature phase of bentwood production, after technical mastery had been achieved but before modernist reduction flattened the language. A partial paper label remains beneath the seat, now too fragmentary to identify with certainty, a common casualty of enduring commercial use in cafés and restaurants. Dark stained timber with visible compression marks and handling gives the piece its depth, a chair shaped as much by bodies as by tools.


Measures: 61 cm W × 58 cm D × 100 cm H (Seat 49 cm H)


Conditioned for presence and atmosphere



Color

Brown

Style

Vintage

Material

Other Wood

Condition

Good

Dimensions (cm)

58.0W x 61.0D x 99.0H

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