Curved beech wood coat rack – Austria-Hungary, Thonet style, around 1900

Curved Beech Coat Rack – Austria-Hungary, Thonet Style, circa 1900, similar to the Thonet model 10401, with a straight central post and a crown of six wrapped arms as hooks, on four fan-shaped curved feet. Originating from Central Europe during the Vienna Secession period, when the Thonet company spread the language of bentwood — steam-bent beech wood — throughout European domestic furniture. The curved wooden coat rack emerged as a natural complement to Thonet's chair no. 14: lightweight, detachable, mass-producible, and shipped in flat crates to every corner of the Austro-Hungarian Empire. Its silhouette — a vertical post, a crown of hooks, a fan-shaped base — became an icon of Viennese cafés, hotels, and bourgeois residences at the turn of the century. Details. Dimensions: Length 80 cm – Depth 76 cm – Height 188 cm. Style: Vienna Secession (Thonet bentwood) Materials and techniques: Solid steam-bent beech; turning; assembly with hidden screws and internal metal tension; dark stain and varnish. Place of origin: Central Europe. Period: Vienna Secession (1897–1918) Date of manufacture: Circa 1900. Condition / Remarks: Good. Wear consistent with age and use.