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Dining Chair

A work made of walnut and beech with modern velvet upholstery.
CC0 Public Domain Designation

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  • A work made of walnut and beech with modern velvet upholstery.

Date:

c. 1870

Artist:

Theophil Hansen
Danish, 1813-1891

About this artwork

While architect and interior designer Theophil Hansen incorporated classical elements into his furniture designs, he also embraced contemporary advances in manufacturing, including the use of steam to bend solid and laminated wood, as seen in the curved forms of this chair’s back.

Laminated bentwood furniture is most closely associated with the Viennese firm Gebrüder Thonet, the first manufacturers to produce bentwood on an industrial scale. When Thonet’s patent expired in 1869, however, others such as Hansen and Jacob and Josef Kohn were able to experiment with new designs using the technique.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Applied Arts of Europe

Artist

Theophilus Edvard von Hansen

Title

Dining Chair

Place

Austria (Object made in)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1865–1875

Medium

Walnut and beech with modern velvet upholstery

Dimensions

89.2 × 46.4 × 61 cm (35 1/8 × 18 1/4 × 24 in.)

Credit Line

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Buchbinder Fund

Reference Number

2015.455

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