- Product:
- Toilet table
- Manufacturer:
- Dorotheum
- Architonic ID:
- 4102061
- Launched:
- 1913
- Country:
- Austria
- Address
- Telephone
- Website
Key facts
Product description
A toilet table, designed by Adolf Loos, 1913,
white painted beechwood, with a glass topped cabinet underlaid with fabric on either side, with extensible trays and a drawer, decorated with beaded mouldings, brass mounts, the back panel with a large mirror and two swivelling side mirrors, height 181 cm, width 129 cm, depth 47.5 cm, original condition.
„The piece of furniture shown to me by the owner was doubtlessly made in Vienna after a design by Adolf Loos (1870–1933). Pieces of toilet furniture of similar form and function as the present one were frequently used in ladies' dressing rooms. The present piece is made of white painted softwood, h = 1.81 m, w = 1.29 m, d = 47.5 cm, consisting of a lower structure in the form of two lateral drawer cabinets with extensible trays, a footrest in between and a central mirror extending to the superstructure. The upper part has been furnished with a swivelling mirror on either side whose position may be fixed when opened completely.
The material and structure suggest that this toilet table used to be the movable part of a similar softwood wall panel decoration and was also complemented by other pieces of furniture such as closets or wardrobes.
According to information provided by the first owner (and heir of the Löwenbach family), it derives from the apartment of Emil Löwenbach in Vienna, located in Reischachstrasse 3/Schallautzerstrasse 4 in the first district and decorated by Loos in 1913. The other pieces were reportedly destroyed in an air raid. This complies with an inventory compiled by the Bundesdenkmalamt in 1947 concerning the condition of the works of Adolf Loos in the region of Vienna.“
Certificate by Dr. Burkhardt Rukschcio Vienna, July 1989
white painted beechwood, with a glass topped cabinet underlaid with fabric on either side, with extensible trays and a drawer, decorated with beaded mouldings, brass mounts, the back panel with a large mirror and two swivelling side mirrors, height 181 cm, width 129 cm, depth 47.5 cm, original condition.
„The piece of furniture shown to me by the owner was doubtlessly made in Vienna after a design by Adolf Loos (1870–1933). Pieces of toilet furniture of similar form and function as the present one were frequently used in ladies' dressing rooms. The present piece is made of white painted softwood, h = 1.81 m, w = 1.29 m, d = 47.5 cm, consisting of a lower structure in the form of two lateral drawer cabinets with extensible trays, a footrest in between and a central mirror extending to the superstructure. The upper part has been furnished with a swivelling mirror on either side whose position may be fixed when opened completely.
The material and structure suggest that this toilet table used to be the movable part of a similar softwood wall panel decoration and was also complemented by other pieces of furniture such as closets or wardrobes.
According to information provided by the first owner (and heir of the Löwenbach family), it derives from the apartment of Emil Löwenbach in Vienna, located in Reischachstrasse 3/Schallautzerstrasse 4 in the first district and decorated by Loos in 1913. The other pieces were reportedly destroyed in an air raid. This complies with an inventory compiled by the Bundesdenkmalamt in 1947 concerning the condition of the works of Adolf Loos in the region of Vienna.“
Certificate by Dr. Burkhardt Rukschcio Vienna, July 1989