A very rare chair, model number 51, demonstration object before 1890
bent solid beechwood, delicately notched; black and light brown stained; original Viennese cane webbing; the latter with a crack; the underside with an old label and an old stamp; signs of age and use; height 91.5 cm, height of seat 46.0 cm, width 39.8 cm, depth 46.0 cm. (MP) cf. exhibitions: MöbelDesign, Roentgen, Thonet und die Moderne, Roentgen Museum Neuwied, 2011. "Sitzen-Liegen-Schaukeln", Möbel von Thonet, Grassi Museum für angewandte Kunst, Leipzig 2014. Literature: Thillmann, Willscheid, "MöbelDesign, Roentgen Thonet und die Moderne", exhibition catalogue, Roentgen Museum Neuwied, 2011, p. 310, ill. 71; Künstlerhaus Wien, Gebogenes Holz, p. 13f.; La Seggiola di Vienna, Giovanna Massobrio and Paolo Portoghesi, Turin Martana 1977; catalogue, MAK, Hackenschmidt, Thillmann, Bugholz, vielschichtig, p. 165.