Side Chair, ca. 1900

  • Josef Hoffmann, Austrian, 1870-1956

Stained mahogany with velvet upholstery

  • Overall: 29 1/2 × 22 × 18 inches (74.9 × 55.9 × 45.7 cm)

Founders Society Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Buhl Ford, II Fund

79.180.2

Department

European Modern Art to 1970

(Christie's, New York, New York, USA)

1979-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)

Important Art Nouveau and Art Deco. Sales cat., Christie, Manson and Woods International. New York, October 25, 1979, p. 285, (pl. 995). "Family Art Game." Detroit Free Press, April 26, 1981, p. 22 (ill.) [DIA Advertising Supplement].

Josef Hoffmann, Side Chair, ca. 1900, stained mahogany with velvet upholstery. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Buhl Ford, II Fund, 79.180.2.