Details
produced by Gebrüder Thonet, Vienna, Austria
chomed tube steel, painted steel, painted beech, fabric
comprising two sections of four chairs and a section of two chairs
3312 x 9034 x 16 in. (85.1 x 230.5 x 40.6 cm) (each section of four chairs)
3312 x 4578 x 16 in. (85.1 x 116.5 x 40.6 cm) (section of two chairs)
Provenance
Auditorium of the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh
Doyle, New York, 17 November 2015, lot 232
Acquired from the above from the present owner
Literature
Bauhaus 1919-1928, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1938 (for period photographs of related theather chairs in the Bauhaus Dessau auditoriaum, Berlin, circa 1925-1926)
Marcel Breuer: Furniture and Interiors, exh. cat., The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 1981, p. 42 (for the above mentioned period photographs)
M. Droste and M. Ludewig, Marcel Breuer Design, Cologne, 1994, pp. 60 (for the above mentioned period photographs), 61 (for a photograph of the model in the conference room of the Bauhaus Dessau, Berlin, circa 1930-1931)
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