On View In:
Gallery 378
Artist:   Josef Hoffmann
Jacob & Josef Kohn  
Title:   "Sitzmaschine" reclining armchair, model no. 670  
Date:   c. 1905  
Medium:   Stained and laminated beechwood, brass, original cushions  
Dimensions:   43 x 32 1/8 x 25 1/4in. (109.2 x 81.6 x 64.1cm)  
Credit Line:   The Modernism Collection, gift of Norwest Bank Minnesota  
Location:   Gallery 378  

Artist/Creator(s)     
Name:   Hoffmann, Josef  
Role:   Designer  
Nationality:   Austrian  
Life Dates:   Austrian (born Czechoslovakia), 1870-1956  
 
Name:   Jacob & Josef Kohn  
Role:   Maker  
Life Dates:   Vienna, Austria, 1869-1932  
 

Object Description  
  
Inscriptions:    
Classification:   Furniture  
Physical Description:   Red seat cushion with yellow squares, five wooden balls on the back of each curved arm; two vertical rows of open squares on seat back; five open vertical rectangles and five open squares beneath each arm  
Creation Place:   Europe, Austria, , ,  
Accession #:   98.276.243  
Owner:   The Minneapolis Institute of Arts