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Max Schmidt

Éléphant side table

Estimate

10,000 - 15,000 EUR

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Description

Max Schmidt

1861 - 1935

Éléphant side table

Designed circa 1900

Sipo, sapelli, birchwood and brass

Manufactured by Friedrich Otto Schmidt, Vienna

63 x 70,5 cm ; 24 ¾ x 27 ¾ in.

Private collection, Austria

Artcurial, Paris, 22 November 2016, lot 9

Acquired from the above

For similar models:

Burkhardt Rukschcio and Roland Schachel, La Vie et l'oeuvre de Adolf Loos, Brussels, 1982, p. 111, n. 12, p. 421, n. 410, p. 424, n. 418, p. 435, n. 441, p. 445, n. 455 and p. 497, n. 561

Siegfried Wichmann, Jugendstil Art Nouveau, Floral and Functional Forms, Boston, 1984, p. 168, n. 344.

Eva B. Ottillinger, Adolf Loos, Wohnkonzepte und Möbelentwürfe, Vienna, 1994, p. 105, n. 131 and p. 154, n. 216

August Sarnitz, Adolf Loos, 1870 - 1933, architecte, critique culturel, dandy, Cologne, 2003, p. 24

This Éléphant table model appears in several interiors designed by Adolf Loos, notably for Dr. Hugo Haberfeld. Several variants are known, produced in different sizes and a variety of wood species, and in some cases fitted with a ceramic tile top.

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