Otto Wagner

A Rare Shelving Unit from the Österreichische Postsparkasse, Vienna, Austria

Auction Closed

December 8, 07:38 PM GMT

Estimate

40,000 - 60,000 USD

Lot Details

Description

Zen by Design: Property from an Important New York Collection

Otto Wagner

A Rare Shelving Unit from the Österreichische Postsparkasse, Vienna, Austria

circa 1904-1906

produced by Gebrüder Thonet, Vienna, Austria

ebonized and bent beechwood, aluminum

54¼ x 50 x 14¼ in. (137.8 x 127 x 36.2 cm)

Österreichische Postsparkasse, Vienna
Barry Friedman Ltd., New York
Maurice and Margo Cohen, Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
Christie's New York, The Maurice & Margo Cohen Collection, June 10, 1999, lot 312
Acquired from the above by the present owner

Paul Assenbaum et al., Otto Wagner: Möbel und Innenräume, Salzburg, 1984, pp. 86, 215 and 220 (for a period photograph of the model in situ in the director's office of the Österreichische Postsparkasse, Vienna)
Derek E. Ostergard, ed., Bent Wood and Metal Furniture: 1850-1946, New York, 1987, p. 247
Peter Barnet and MaryAnn Wilkinson, Decorative Arts 1900: Highlights from Private Collections in Detroit, 1993, cat. no. 129, p. 109 (for the present lot illustrated)

Decorative Arts 1900: Highlights from Private Collections in Detroit, Detroit Institute of Arts, November 7, 1993-January 9, 1994