Very rare pair of chairs in steamed, bent, and curved beech wood, stained mahogany. 

Each chair bears the THONET stamp on the inside of the belt; one of the chairs has remnants of the THONET WIEN label under the seat.  

Height: 99 cm – Length: 39.5 cm – Depth: 51 cm

Public collection and related works:  

Victoria & Albert Museum, South Kensington, London – A bench and an armchair No. 511, common variants of our model, are kept in the collections of this institution under inventory numbers W.41 1979 and W.42-1979.    

Bibliography: 

- II Supplementheft zum Gebrüder Thonet’schen Hauptkatalog vom 1. Oktober 1904 – Supplement to the Thonet Brothers' 1904 commercial catalog, Vienna, June 1907. A No. 512 chair reproduced on page 137.  

- Thonet Bentwood & Other Furniture: The 1904 Illustrated Catalog, with the 1905-6 and 1907 supplements and price lists in German and English – Dover Publications, New York, 1980.  A chair No. 512 reproduced page 137.