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Hugo Haberfeld's apartment in Vienna, showing a table of this design with variant feet.

ADOLF LOOS (1870-1933)

AN OAK AND BRASS SIDE TABLE, CIRCA 1905

Details

ADOLF LOOS (1870-1933)
An Oak and Brass Side Table, circa 1905
executed by Friedrich Otto Schmidt, Vienna
27¾ in. (70.5 cm.) high, 29¾ in. (75.5 cm.) diameter

Provenance

J. H. Antiques, New York.

Special notice

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Lot Essay

cf. H. Kulka, Adolf Loos, Vienna, 1985, p. 50, ill. 10 for a table of this model with variant feet in the apartment of Hugo Haberfeld, Vienna.

Adolf Loos first designed this table for the Vienna apartment of Hugo Haberfeld in 1902.

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