Gebrüder Thonet
LADY’S DESK
Gebrüder Thonet
LADY’S DESK
Bel Etage, Wolfgang Bauer, Vienna
Date 1904
Period 20th century
Origin Vienna, Austria
Medium Bent beech and plywood, Mahogany, Veneer
Dimension 105 x 96 x 65 cm (41³/₈ x 37³/₄ x 25⁵/₈ inches)
Designed and executed by: Gebrüder Thonet, model no. 2, Vienna, 1904
Bent beech and plywood, mahogany veneer (table top), parts of the veneer replaced, dyed to rosewood, surface professionally repolished, brass fittings polished and stove enamelled, glass top and fabric on top replaced, very nice restored condition
H 105 cm, H (table top) 76 cm, W 96 cm, D 65 cm
The furniture from the 511 series, which includes a desk, chairs, armchairs, a settee and a rocking chair, are amongst the most elegant pieces of Jugendstil furniture ever produced by Gebrüder Thonet. Nevertheless, it has not yet been possible to clearly establish by whom these pieces were desigend. It is, however, assumed that it was Marcel Kammerer. It was certainly not Josef Hoffmann who cooperated at the time with competitor J. &. J. Kohn.
Date: 1904
Period: 20th century
Origin: Vienna, Austria
Medium: Bent beech and plywood, Mahogany, Veneer
Dimension: 105 x 96 x 65 cm (41³/₈ x 37³/₄ x 25⁵/₈ inches)
Provenance: private property, Italy
Literature: desk: G. Renzi, Il mobile moderno, Gebrüder
Thonet Vienna, Jacob & Josef Kohn, Milan, 2008, p.
126; chair: Gebrüder Thonet sales cat., 1 Sep 1904, ill. p. 119; D. E. Ostergard
(ed.), Bent Wood and Metal Furniture 1850–1946, 1987, p. 250, fig. 49 c; G. Renzi,
Il mobile moderno, Gebrüder Thonet Vienna, Jacob & Josef Kohn, Milan, 2008,
pp. 122 f
Bel Etage, Wolfgang Bauer, Vienna
Viennese Jugendstil, Secessionist Movement
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