Marcel Kammerer - Design Vienna and the Wiener Werkstätte New York Thursday, March 3, 2011 | Phillips

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  • Literature


    Das Interieur, vol. VI, Vienna, 1905, p. 82; ; Christopher Wilk, ed., Thonet Bentwood & Other Furniture: The 1904 Illustrated Catalogue, New York, 1980, p. 143 for a similar example; Derek E. Ostergard, ed., Bent Wood and Metal Furniture: 1850-1946, exh. cat., New York, 1987, pp. 116 and 254; Alexander von Vegesack, Thonet: Classic Furniture in Bent Wood and Tubular Steel, New York, 1996, p. 94 for a similar example

  • Catalogue Essay

    Marcel Kammerer studied with architect Otto Wagner at the Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna from 1898 to 1901. Following his graduation, Kammerer joined his professor's architectural practice, where he remained from 1902 to 1910, and where he assisted with two of the firm's most significant commissions: the dispatch bureau of the newspaper Die Zeit and the Österreichische Postsparkasse, a postal savings bank. Both commissions included important bentwood furniture by Wagner. During his tenure at the firm, Kammerer designed several of his own bentwood models for manufacturer Gebruder Thönet. A simplified version of the present table--with a laminated wood top and without aluminum fittings--appears as Model no. 40 in Thonet's 1907 supplement to its earlier 1904 catalogue. Given its elaborate and no doubt expensive details, the present configuration never went into mass production and is one of only two known examples.

33

Very rare side table

ca. 1904

Beechwood, aluminum, glass.

30 1/4 × 19 3/4 × 19 3/4 in. (76.8 × 50.2 × 50.2 cm.)
Executed by Gebrüder Thonet, Austria. Frame with metal label with “GEBRÜDER THONET/WIEN, STEFANSPLATZ.”

Estimate
$150,000 - 180,000 

Design Vienna and the Wiener Werkstätte

3 March 2011
New York