Lot No. 50


A Model No. A63/F armchair and two Model No. A63 chairs, designed by Gustav Adolf Schneck


A Model No. A63/F armchair and two Model No. A63 chairs, designed by Gustav Adolf Schneck - Design

in 1928, for Thonet-Mundus AG, Vienna, blue coated bentwood (solid beech) and plywood (beech), armchair: height approx. 88 cm, width approx. 57.5 cm, depth approx. 56 cm, height of seat approx. 36 cm. (MHA)

Having been attributed to Josef Frank for a long time, these designs can actually be assigned to Gustav Adolf Schneck.

These model were used for the Vienna Werkbund housing estate, for example.

Lit.:
Thonet-Mundus factory catalogue, 1932, no. A 63F; E. B. Ottillinger, Gebrüder Thonet. Möbel aus gebogenem Holz, Vienna 2003, p. 89. no. 61; Werkbundsiedlung Wien 1932. Ein Manifest des Neuen Wohnens, exhibition catalogue, Wien Museum, Vienna 2012, p. 68; Josef Frank Against Design, MAK, Vienna, 2016

Specialist: Mathias Harnisch, MA Mathias Harnisch, MA
+43-1-515 60-242

Mathias.Harnisch@dorotheum.at

10.05.2021 - 15:08

Estimate:
EUR 4,000.- to EUR 6,000.-

A Model No. A63/F armchair and two Model No. A63 chairs, designed by Gustav Adolf Schneck


in 1928, for Thonet-Mundus AG, Vienna, blue coated bentwood (solid beech) and plywood (beech), armchair: height approx. 88 cm, width approx. 57.5 cm, depth approx. 56 cm, height of seat approx. 36 cm. (MHA)

Having been attributed to Josef Frank for a long time, these designs can actually be assigned to Gustav Adolf Schneck.

These model were used for the Vienna Werkbund housing estate, for example.

Lit.:
Thonet-Mundus factory catalogue, 1932, no. A 63F; E. B. Ottillinger, Gebrüder Thonet. Möbel aus gebogenem Holz, Vienna 2003, p. 89. no. 61; Werkbundsiedlung Wien 1932. Ein Manifest des Neuen Wohnens, exhibition catalogue, Wien Museum, Vienna 2012, p. 68; Josef Frank Against Design, MAK, Vienna, 2016

Specialist: Mathias Harnisch, MA Mathias Harnisch, MA
+43-1-515 60-242

Mathias.Harnisch@dorotheum.at


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Auction: Design
Auction type: Online auction
Date: 10.05.2021 - 15:08
Location: Vienna | Palais Dorotheum
Exhibition: 03.05. - 10.05.2021