Armchair (Primary Title)
Koloman Moser, Austrian, 1868 - 1918 (Designer)
Johann W. Müller, Austrian, dates unknown (Maker)
This armchair was most likely made as part of a suite of furniture for Dr. Hans Eisler von Terramare of Vienna, Austria. The suite, now at the Badisches Landesmuseum in Karlsruhe, Germany, was designed by the preeminent artist Koloman Moser. He was among the most important designers working in Austria around 1900. A prominent design element, which became a hallmark of early 20th-century Viennese furniture, is the repeated squares seen in the shape of the chair and the surface decoration. Another element to note, and one that sets this chair and the entire suite of furniture apart from more modest examples, is the use of rare and expensive materials. This chair was made by Johann W. Müller.
Gift of Sydney and Frances Lewis
Vienna Moderne: 1898-1918, Cooper Hewitt Museum, NY, 1978 and three other venues (see Curatorial file);
Cinquantenaire de l'Exposition de 1925, Paris, Musee des Arts Decoratifs, 1976, no. 703 (owned at this time by Annie Partouche, Paris).
Cinquantenaire de l'Exposition de 1925, Paris, Musee des Arts Decoratifs, 1976, no. 703 (owned at this time by Annie Partouche, Paris).
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