Armchair

Designer Bernhard Pankok German

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Pankok’s armchair is part of a lady’s sitting-room suite that the designer presented at the 1901 Dresden International Exhibition. A cofounder of the Vereinigten Werkstätten für Kunst im Handwerk (United Workshops for Arts and Crafts), Pankok designed this chair in the manner of Jugendstil (Style of Youth), a restrained, curvilinear German interpretation of French Art Nouveau popular during the 1890s and early twentieth century. The sensuous, swelling forms and contours make the armchair appear like a living organism. The combination of warm oak and dark leather enhances its appeal.

Armchair, Bernhard Pankok (German, Münster 1872–1943 Munich), Oak, plasticized Poly(vinyl chloride) (PVC-P) with calcium carbonate

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