Chair with porters of the brand Fischel of the period ART NOUVEAU

Chair with porters or chair with arms, from the art nouveau period, circa 1900, in curved wood from the famous czechoslovak manufacture fischel. Original label present and mark in hollow. Atypical chair - relatively rare! Size: Length: 141 cm. Height: 119 cm. Width: 58 cm. Chair in good general condition, to mention some traces of wear and 3 small holes in the cannage of the backrest and 1 small hole in the cannage of the seat (see photos). To pick up at my home or possibility of delivery by me within a radius of 350 km (at the expense of the buyer). "fischel furniture, which is in the continuity of the productions of mickaël thonet who from 1830, begins to exploit the techniques of curvature of wood by parboiling. It was at the expiration of its patents in 1869, that thonet saw the emergence of strong competition, with companies such as jack & josef köhn, fischel, mundus, hofmann... Embark on a production whose first models do not hesitate to copy purely and simply, those of the chairs and armchairs imagined by thonet. Coming from prague, david gabriel fischel, originally a merchant of vegetable oils, launched his activity on june 10, 1871 and entrusted this new field of production to the eldest of his sons, alexander fischel who for several years had worked for thonet, in his factory in koritschan in czechoslovakia. It was in niemes near the danube that d.g. Fischel set up his factory, which then employed nearly 100 workers. In 1873, gabriel the second son of the founder took charge of the commercial development as director and the firm expanded its reputation by participating in many exhibitions such as the universal exhibition of barcelona in 1888, which helped to increase sales in europe. ...

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