Ladie´s Writing Desk

Adolf Loos

Brünn 1870 - 1933 Wien

Ladie´s Writing Desk

Manufactured by Friedrich Otto Schmidt, Vienna, 1st district, Singerstraße 16

Softwood, oil varnish, brass fittings, writing inlay with new leather

H 106 cm (with top), H 80 cm (without top)
W 113 cm, D 67.5 cm

Company stamp on the underside: Friedrich Otto Schmidt / Wien / 1 Singerstrasse 16 / Schmidt Miksa / Budapest / 5. Lipotkorut 4

Professionally restored

Provenienz:

Private collection, Vienna

Ausstellungen:

Paris, ‘Adolf Loos – Exposition Du Cinquantenaire’, 1983
Karlsruhe, ‘Gründerzeit, Adolf Loos: Jahrhundertwende: Rückblick und Ausblick im Spiegel der Wiener Architektur’, 1987

Literatur:

Burkhardt Rukschcio/Roland Schachel, Adolf Loos. Leben und Werk, 1982, Salzburg/Vienna, ill. p. 115, no. 117
cf. Exhibition catalogue ‘Adolf Loos. Private Spaces’, Barcelona Design Museum, 2017, ill. p. 134