Paire de fauteuils Josef Frank n° 752, en bois courbé et cannage, Thonet, Autriche, années 1930

Pair of Josef Frank n ° 752 armchairs, in curved wood and cane, Thonet, Austria, 1930s. The chairs are in great condition, they have been refurbished and professionally canned with new canning. The structure of the chairs is sturdy, but they feel light and comfortable. The seats consist of cane braid in a typical pattern called “wiener geflecht”. One of the chairs is marked with a remaining thonet paper mark under the seat. They are made of dark brown stained beech wood in the carpet tone of walnut. Creator: josef frank (designer), gebrüder thonet vienna (manufacturer) Dimensions: Height: 27.96 '' (71cm) Width: 26.38 '' (67cm) Depth: 27.17 '' (69cm) Seat Height: 14.97 '' (38cm) Sold as: set of 2. Style: art deco. Materials and techniques: polished beech, cane. Place of origin: Austria, Bohemia. Period: 1930-1940. Condition: very good, with some minor wear consistent with age and use. About josef frank (designer) Austrian architect and furniture and fabric designer josef frank was a leading voice for gentle and humane modernism. Her advocacy for warm, comfortable and eclectic environments had a great influence in her adopted country, Sweden. The son of a successful Viennese textile manufacturer, Frank studied architecture at the Vienna Polytechnic School, graduating in 1910. From the first years of his practice, he walked against the orderly and symmetrical architectural arrangements and settings prescribed by contemporaries like Adolf Loos. Frank writes pieces of various shapes and asks for flexible interior designs. His furniture is light and easy to move - and his chairs are always made of wood, most often with steam-curved arms and slatted backs. Frank blatantly hated the tubular steel furniture and the 'machine for living' aesthetic promoted by Le Corbusier and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and other directors of the Bauhaus.