Jocob&Josef Kohn fauteuil nr.18, circa 1890
Dimensions table: height - 90cm, width - 50cm, depth - 56cm
• Model: n.18
• Manufacturer: J&J Kohn
• Style: Art Nouveau
• Material and Techniques: bentwood, rattan
• Place of origin: Austria
• Production period: 1890s
• Condition: after professional restoration
• Identification signs: Manufacturer’s paper label and stamp on the inside of the seat
From Vienna to Warsaw - café culture of an era
The bentwood café chair shaped the face of urban culture at the turn of the twentieth century. They stood in coffeehouses of Vienna, Kraków, Warsaw, Lviv, Prague and Budapest. Light, strong, easily stackable - they were the ideal solution for cafés, restaurants, hotels and clubs across Central Europe. The Kohn-Mundus Polish factories supplied furniture not only to local markets. Through the American representative office Astra Bentwood in New York, chairs stamped "Made in Poland" reached the US market, where they were being sold as antiques as early as the 1920s.
