RICHARD RIEMERSCHMID
| About the artist | 1868 – Munich – 1957 |
| Designed by | Richard Riemerschmid, Munich, 1898/99 |
| Executed by | Vereinigte Werkstätten Kunst im Handwerk, Munich |
| Dimensions | H 78 cm, SH 45 cm, W 48 cm, D 57 cm/H 30.7 in, SH 17.7 in, W 18.9 in, D 22.4 in |
| Material | Solid oak, surface gently cleaned and refreshed, small repairs and retouches. It is possible that the original leather cover was replaced with the embroidered cover around 1948. I am, however, aware of original embroidered chair covers ordered by clients as such. Very nice, lightly refreshed original condition. |
| Provenance | estate of Herbert Hoover, USA |
| Literature | W. Nerdinger (ed.): Richard Riemerschmid, Vom Jugendstil zum Werkbund, Munich, 1982, p. 18, 142, 144 |
For the German Art Exhibition in Dresden in 1899 and the German Pavilion at the Exposition Universelle in Paris 1900, the Munich piano manufacturer J. Mayer & Co. commissioned Riemerschmied to design these chairs to furnish their music room.
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