Design
Design
Zen by Design: Property from an Important New York Collection
Gebrüder Thonet
Dressing Mirror and Foot Stool
Lot Closed
October 20, 04:42 PM GMT
Estimate
3,000 - 5,000 USD
Lot Details
Description
Zen by Design: Property from an Important New York Collection
Gebrüder Thonet
Dressing Mirror and Foot Stool
designed circa 1873 and 1885
model nos. 9951 and 5952
produced by Gebrüder Thonet, Vienna, Austria
stained beechwood, cane, mirrored glass
mirror: 76 1/4 x 43 1/2 x 23 in. (193.7 x 110.5 x 58.4 cm)
stool: 7 in (17.8 cm) high, 16 1/4 in. (41.3 cm) maximum diameter
Christopher Wilk, ed., Thonet Bentwood & Other Furniture: The 1904 Illustrated Catalogue, New York, 1980, pp. 44 (for the stool) and 77 (for the mirror)
Derek E. Ostergard, ed., Bentwood and Metal Furniture 1850-1946, New York, 1987, p. 226, no. 27 (for the mirror)
Ghenete Zelleke, Eva B. Ottillinger and Nina Stritzler, Against the Grain: Bentwood Furniture from the Collection of Fern and Manfred Steinfeld, exh. cat., Art Institute of Chicago, 1993, pp. 17 (for a period drawing of the foot stool in Harper's Weekly, October 28, 1876) and 66 (for the mirror)