Josef Hoffmann, a chair, exhibited at the 1908 Kunstschau in Vienna, used inter alia for the children’s room at Palais Stoclet, Brussels; model number 396, designed in 1907–08, executed by J. & J. Kohn, Vienna, as of 1908

beechwood; solid wood and mahogany veneered; brown-stained and with polished finish; the back rest with geometrical marquetry in cherrywood and mother-of-pearl; six oval cones under the round seat; the underside with remains of an old J. & J. Kohn label; professionally restored, signs of age and use; height 91.7 cm, height of seat 47 cm, width 43.5 cm, depth 42.5 cm. (MP)

Provenance:
Viennese private property.

Literature:
Kohn catalogue, 1909, mod. no. 396; Die Kunst, X/18, Munich 1908, p. 538o and u; Moderne Bauformen, VIII, Stuttgart 1908, p. 375; Kunstschau 1908, exhibition catalogue, Belvedere, p. 416f; Renzi, Il mobile moderno, p. 214ff.