SMALL DRAWING-ROOM TABLE
designed by: Marcel Kammerer attrib., Vienna, 1904
executed by: Gebrüder Thonet, model no. 42
beech and bent beech wood, stained and polished, brass fittings, restored
H 78 cm, Ø 58 cm
This drawing-room table is amongst the most beautiful Jugendstil pieces executed by Thonet. Since Wagner student Marcel Kammerer was Thonet's head designer and there was no other well-known designer working for Thonet at that time, one can assume with a high degree of certainty that he was the designer of this table. He was inspired by one of Koloman Moser's designs – the table by Kohn, model no. 413, designed around 1900.
ref.: sales cat. Gebrüder Thonet, 1 Sep 1904, supplement 1 Oct 1904, ill. p. 143;Fremdkörper (ed.), Moderne Möbel, 150 Jahre Design, 2009, p. 667