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Chair

Designed c. 1907
Designed by Josef Hoffmann (Austrian, 1870–1956) Made from 1907 - c. 1914 by the firm of Jacob and Josef Kohn, Vienna, Austria (1850–c. 1914) Made after 1916 by Mundas, Vienna (1907–1922)
This chair was designed for the barroom of the Vienna Kabarett Fledermaus, a café-theater conceived as a meeting place for the Viennese avant-garde. Its interior decoration was designed largely by Hoffmann and executed by the Wiener Werkstätte (Vienna Workshops).

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