FRIEDRICH OTTO SCHMIDT
| Designed by | Friedrich Otto Schmidt, Vienna, around 1903 |
| Executed by | Friedrich Otto Schmidt, Vienna, around 1903 |
| Dimensions | H 77 cm, W 95 cm, D 95 cm |
| Material | Solid mahogany and veneer, one drawer, surface professionally repolished, polished copper fittings, some of them cast, ashtrays and automatically opening gaming chip containers activated by a central pull-out mechanism, table top recovered with blue Alcantara-like fabric, excellent condition |
| Provenance | private property, Germany |
| Literature | Company archives of Friedrich Otto Schmidt, no. 181; A. Loos, Wohnkonzepte und Möbelentwürfe, Vienna, 1994, p. 78; P. Rostás, Mágnások Lakberendezöje, 2010, p. 228; Y. Macaux, Through Modernism, Brussels, p. 34, p. 70 |
An original design sketch showing an almost identical table numbered model number 181 has been preserved in the archives of the company Friedrich Otto Schmidt company. Because of its very expensive mechanism our model certainly cost considerably more than the 260 krones quoted on the sketch.
We would like to thank Mr. Péter Rostás, Budapest, and Mr. Klaus Lorenz from the company Friedrich Otto Schmidt in Vienna for their friendly help and for providing us with the documentation.
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