Help with a Fischel coat rack

Discussion in 'Furniture' started by williamsa, Mar 12, 2022.

  1. williamsa

    williamsa New Member

    Hi there
    I found this forum through a google search for Fischel and I'm hoping someone might be able to help me identify the attached bentwood coat rack.
    It was bought in London, England and measures about 35 x 13 x 15" - you can see just the remains of the Fischel label on the rear.
    I found various other Fischel coat racks online, but none with this configuration with the extra rack on top. I'd be interested to get a rough idea of the age and if it might have had any special use?
    Thank you very much!

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  2. Matahari

    Matahari Well-Known Member

    Memory lane for me

    Hat rack on top
     
  3. Matahari

    Matahari Well-Known Member

    for the age

    Bentwood furniture was invented by Michael Thonet, who was granted patents for his invention in England, France, and Belgium in 1841.
    When the patents expired in 1871, David Gabriel Fischel founded D.G. Fischel Sons in Niemes, Czechoslovakia, and began making bentwood furniture.
    Fischel’s son, Alexander, had worked at Thonet Bros. By 1913, the company was also working in Vienna. The company was still working in the 1920s.
     
  4. williamsa

    williamsa New Member

    Thanks for this Matahari, I had seen the Thonet name when I was searching but I hadn't found out that connection so that's interesting to know!
     
  5. Fid

    Fid Well-Known Member

    it's a bit more complicate.:)
    what we look upon as typically Thonet was taking off in big volumes after 1850 only when Thonet and his sons were already installed in Vienna.
    most of the production was in - then - Austrian Bohemia due to cheap labor and knowledge about the cultivation and care of immense plantations of straight beech trees that made the bending in industrial quantities easier and cheaper.
    Fischel, Kohn, Mundus and others were starting their production with Thonet patents. especially Kohn tried to push Thonet out of the market and was successful in the end when Thonet didn't prolong his patents - which meant that the use of the designs and the process with steambending were open to all.
    after WWI everything fell apart anyways when the Austrian Empire was split up in independent states.
     
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