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

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  • Literature


    Das Interieur, Vienna, 1905, p. 82 for a chair and table with similar elements; Derek E. Ostergard, ed., Bent Wood and Metal Furniture: 1850–1946, exh. cat., New York, 1987, pp. 116 and 254 for a chair and table with similar elements; Giovanni Renzi, Il Mobile Moderno: Gebrüder Thonet Vienna, Jacob & Josef Kohn, Cinisello Balsamo, 2008, pp. 144-145

  • Catalogue Essay

    The protruding console of the present hall stand, the only known example in this configuration, relates directly to Lot 33 and to a similar table and armchair illustrated in a 1905 issue of Das Interieur, a monthly Viennese architectural journal. In addition, it bears striking similarities to the Kammerer plant stand gifted by Max Palevsky to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Like those works, the present lot comprises solid bent beechwood, cast aluminum fittings, and a glass top. Its elaborate details would have prevented it from entering mass production by Gebrüder Thonet, where it was produced.

44

Very rare hall stand

ca. 1904

Beechwood, aluminum, glass, mirrored glass, fabric.

78 1/4 × 53 1/2 × 20 in. (198.8 × 135.9 × 50.8 cm.)
Executed by Gebrüder Thonet, Austria. One stretcher with metal label with "GEBRÜDER THONET/WIEN, STEFANSPLATZ."

Estimate
$150,000 - 180,000 

Design Vienna and the Wiener Werkstätte

3 March 2011
New York