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  Werner Schmidt Folding Triangle Chair “Falt-Stuhl” 1993

  WERNER SCHMIDT (b. 1953)  Switzerland.

  Folding triangle chair, 1993.

  Dark brown laminate Plywood, hinges.

  Signed:  Werner Schmidt, 8/10, ‘93 (script signature in white permanent marker)

  For related folding table by Schmidt see illustration: Aluminum by Design, Sarah Nichols et al. (Pittsburgh, PA:  Carnegie Museum of Art, 2000) p. 57.

  Open dimension: H: 31 5/8” x  W: 28” x D: 20”
  Closed dimension: H: 31 5/8” x W 22 1/2”

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  Michael Powolny / Lötz Witwe Glaswerks Jugendstil Set of Three “Tango” Glass Vases c. 1920

  PROF.  MICHAEL POWOLNY  (1871-1954)  Austria
  LÖTZ WITWE GLASWERKS   Klostermuhle

  Set of three “Tango” glass vases  c. 1920

  Blown tall yellow glass with applied black  handles, blown orange glass with applied cobalt blue handles, blown red glass with applied black handle-form feet

  Marks: Cecho. Slovakia (acid etched in an oval) (red vase)

  Yellow and black vase              H: 6 1/2” x Dia: 6″
  Orange and cobalt blue vase   H: 5 1/2” x Dia: 6″
  Red and black vase                  H: 3 1/2” x Dia: 6″

  For more information see: Lötz: Böhmisches Glas 1880-1940, Band 1, Helmut Ricke and Ernst Ploil, (Munich: Prestel-Verlag, 1989) ; Glass of the Avant-Garde, From Vienna Secession to Bauhaus, The Torsten  Bröhan Collection from the Museo Nacional de Artes Decorativas, Madrid, Torsten Bröhan, Martin Eidelberg (Munich, London, New York: Prestel Verlag, 2001).

  Other Powolny works: Jugendstil Art Nouveau: floral und functional forms, Siegfried  Wichmann (New York / Boston: Graphic Society, Little, Brown and Co., 1984), p. 226; Vienna 1900-1930: Art in the Home, Historical Design exhibition catalogue (New York: Historical Design, Inc., 1996), p. 45; Modernism:Modernist Design 1880-1940, The Norwest Collection, Norwest Corporation, Minneapolis, Alastair Duncan (Woodbridge, Suffolk, England:  The Antique Collector’s Club, 1998).

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