Elefantenruesseltisch KL


 

designed by: Adolf Loos around 1900
executed by: Friedrich Otto Schmidt, 1900 – 1930
Solid walnut and veneer, cast brass fittings, tiles.
Professionally restored, eight-legged version.
Ø 80,5 cm, H 65,5 cm

Lit.: Das Interieur, 1903, p. 14; Rukschcio, Schachel, Adolf Loos, p. 111; Ottillinger, Adolf Loos, p. 105, p. 165; Rostás, Friedrich Otto Schmidt, p. 210, p. 281, among others. The elephant trunk table, documented in writing and photographs by the Friedrich Otto Schmidt Archive, was used in the apartments of Dr. Hugo Haberfeld and in the study of Gustav Turnovsky's apartment (both from 1902), among others.