  
  About the Artwork
  
  
  Wagner was the architect of the &Atilde;&#150;sterreichische Postsparkasse (Imperial Austrian Postal Savings Bank) constructed in Vienna from 1904 to 1906. Co-founder of the Wiener Werkst&Atilde;&curren;tte and one of the earliest proponents of functionalist design in the twentieth century, he designed this armchair for the bank&acirc;&#128;&#153;s board room from two materials that had never been used in this upper-class environment before: bentwood and aluminum. Wagner used aluminum for both decorative and protective purposes, just as eighteenth-century cabinetmakers had used gilt bronze.
  
  
  Title
  Chair
  
  
  Artwork Date
  between 1904 and 1906
  
  
  
  
  Makers
  
  
  Otto Wagner  (Designer)
  Austrian, 1841-1918
  (Manufacturer)
  Gebr&Atilde;&frac14;der Thonet
  
  
  
  Medium
  Beechwood, plywood, aluminum
  
  
  Dimensions
  Overall: 30 1/2 &Atilde;&#151; 22 &Atilde;&#151; 18 1/2 inches (77.5 &Atilde;&#151; 55.9 &Atilde;&#151; 47 cm)
  
  
  Classification
  Furniture
  
  
  Department
  European Modern Art to 1970
  
  
  Credit
  Founders Society Purchase, Dr. and Mrs. George Kamperman Fund and Honorarium and Memorial Gifts Fund
  
  
  
  Accession Number
  
  
  
  This unique number is assigned to an individual artwork as part of the cataloguing process at the time of entry into the permanent collection.
  Most frequently, accession numbers begin with the year in which the artwork entered the museum&acirc;&#128;&#153;s holdings.
  For example, 2008.3 refers to the year of acquisition and notes that it was the 3rd of that year. The DIA has a few additional systems&acirc;&#128;&#148;no longer assigned&acirc;&#128;&#148;that identify specific donors or museum patronage groups.
  
  
  
  1985.3
  
  
  Copyright
  Copyright Not Evaluated
  
  
  
