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JACOB JOSEF KOHN AUSTRIA - THE DESIGN ATTRIBUTED TO OTTO WAGNER (1841-1918) "Series 721", a variation of the chair model "718", designed around 1902 for the dispatch office of the newspaper Die Zeit in Vienna Important modernist lounge composed of four chairs and a two-seater bench. The structures in steamed, curved and stained beech. The shaped seats and backs with large perforations in thermoformed and stained beech plywood. Old editions of the first quarter of the twentieth century. Condition and restorations of use. Each seat marked J. J. KOHN Westin-Austria with a hot iron and/or on a paper label on the back. Chairs : H. 89 cm - W. 42 cm - D. 43 cm Bench : H. 81 cm - W. 122 cm - D. 49 cm Bibliography : Jacob Josef Kohn - Facsimile of the 1916 trade catalog, G. Dry, Munich, 1985. Identical model reproduced on page 60.
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JACOB JOSEF KOHN AUSTRIA - THE DESIGN ATTRIBUTED TO OTTO WAGNER (1841-1918) "Series 721", a variation of the chair model "718", designed around 1902 for the dispatch office of the newspaper Die Zeit in Vienna Important modernist lounge composed of four chairs and a two-seater bench. The structures in steamed, curved and stained beech. The shaped seats and backs with large perforations in thermoformed and stained beech plywood. Old editions of the first quarter of the twentieth century. Condition and restorations of use. Each seat marked J. J. KOHN Westin-Austria with a hot iron and/or on a paper label on the back. Chairs : H. 89 cm - W. 42 cm - D. 43 cm Bench : H. 81 cm - W. 122 cm - D. 49 cm Bibliography : Jacob Josef Kohn - Facsimile of the 1916 trade catalog, G. Dry, Munich, 1985. Identical model reproduced on page 60.
