Chair
Designed by Peter Behrens
- Maker
- Designed by Peter Behrens
- Date
- 1902
- Medium
- Ebonized oak and woven rattan
- Dimensions
- 99.1 × 45.8 × 46.4 cm (39 × 18 × 18 1/4 in.)
- Form
- Chair
- Origin
- Germany
- Museum
- Art Institute of Chicago
- Accession
- 1993.157
- Credit line
- Purchased with funds provided by Mr. and Mrs. Manfred Steinfeld
Peter Behrens designed this chair for a model dining room display at the Wertheim department store in Berlin in 1902. It was one of twelve architect-designed rooms installed in the prominent German store; these rooms helped disseminate modern design to consumers. Behrens repeated the pattern of geometric forms on the furniture, lighting, wallpaper, and carpet of the room.