Recent record prices include $116,500 for a pair of beechwood and leather chairs by Josef Hoffmann that sold on April 17, 2012, and $422,500 for an Aesthetic Movement carved and parcel gilt ash settee by Louis Comfort Tiffany and Samuel Colman that sold in February. Both chairs were auctioned by Doyle New York. Hoffmann (1870-1956) was a famous Austrian architect and designer and a member of the Wiener Werkstatte group. The carved and gilded Tiffany settee made about 1890 is decorated with peacocks, leaves, vines, and flowers. It is 67 3/4 inches long.
Photos: Doyle New York
Oops. Thank you for noticing. Obviously I listed the height not the length, 67 3/4 inches. Glad you found the error. Unfortunately sometimes, in spite of all the checking, we make mistakes.
Terry
If that settee is only 33 3/8 inches long. It must be made for a child. The seat must be only about one foot high.
Here’s the description:
In the Near Eastern style, the double arched crest densely decorated with peacocks nestled and feeding amongst meandering stylized tendrils, leaves and various species of blossoms, above a reeded spindle back flanked by conforming stiles, continuing to gently curved arms and a padded seat, raised on tapering reeded legs joined by stretchers and conforming side spindles and ending in claw and glass ball feet. Height 33 3/8 inches, width 67 3/4 inches, depth 27 3/4 inches.
The settee is less than a yard wide? The seat must be only 11-12 inches off the ground !