The armchair is a variant of the furniture Peter Behrens designed for the library of his own house in Darmstadt in 1901/1902. This room, "one of the most publicized interiors of the early 20th century" (Tilmann Buddensieg), represents a quantum leap in the design history of German furniture at the dawn of modern design, and this chair is one of the earliest radically modern pieces of seating furniture. The design has been intelligently reduced to its load-bearing and supportive function; there is not one superfluous element that could be dispensed with without compromising stability. The version shown here, attributed to the Heinrich Julius Glückert furniture factory, with its unusual palisander veneer strips, appears straighter, more static than the chair from the Behrens house, whose back rests on only one rear support, due to the two rear legs being raised to form the backrest. This lot contains materials which require a CITES licence for export outside of the EU contract countries. We would like to inform you that such licenses are usually not granted.来源: Provenance Probably originally made for Emil Möbus, Wiesbaden. From an important European private collection.Solid cherry wood, solid palisander and veneer, beech veneer, original spring upholstery with horse hair wadding and cotton damask cover in blush pink and gold with brass studs.