Fine Biedermeier side chair

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Vienna, c.1820
Walnut veneer

Overall Height: 37”
Seat: W:18” D:20” H:19”

Ref: 153 Sesselmodelle aus Danhauser’s K & K. Priv. Moebelfabrik, MAK-Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna, 1989, No. 69

This exceptional Biedermeier side chair is a good example of the elegance and inventiveness of Viennese Biedermeier design. Viennese chairs are characterized by a lightness and an imaginative formation of the back.
A similar chair design with a scalloped back (no.69) is known by Josef Danhauser. The drawing is owned by the Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna (MAK) as part of a collection of original drawings by Vienna’s most prolific Biedermeier cabinetmaker.

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