Chair
Behrens designed AEG's factories, its kettles and its letterhead. This chair is from the year he turned from Jugendstil towards all of that.
MakerPeter Behrens
Date1902
OriginGermany
MediumEbonized oak and woven rattan
Dimensions99.1 × 45.8 × 46.4 cm (39 × 18 × 18 1/4 in.)
Classchair
RegisterObject
QuantityOne. There is never a second.
€ 170
How this figure was reached
9 priced lots of 120 ended for this name; 80–170 EUR, median 150.
This is the market's number, not the dealer's ask — the top of what the name has realised in public. The dealer's own figure replaces it when the object is catalogued.
The public record
Auctionet, 2026-09-21 · 120 ended lots found
priced 9
unsold 5
sell-through 64%
confidence 0.47
basis hammer
in euro € 80–€ 170
Attribution
By
Documented as the maker's own work.
Attributed to
The scholarship points here; the documentation is incomplete.
Circle of
The workshop or immediate following, in the maker's lifetime.
Manner of
The style, by another hand, at any date.
After
A copy of a known work by this maker.
Unattributed
No maker of record. Most of the trade lives here.
This plate
Chair, Art Institute of Chicago, object 121781.
Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Manfred Steinfeld Released as Public Domain (CC0);
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