Very rare chair in steamed, bent, and curved beech wood, stained  mahogany.

Bears the THONET stamp on the inside of the belt.  

Height: 104.5 cm – Length: 54.5 cm – Depth: 57 cm  

Public collection and related work:  

Victoria & Albert Museum, South Kensington, London – An armchair No. 511, common variant of our model, is kept in the collections of this institution under inventory number 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 chair No. 512 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.