cabinet

• Salon Cabinet for a Reception Salon

• furniture and woodwork collection

• design: Dagobert Peche, Vienna, 1913
• execution: Jakob Soulek, Vienna, 1913

• Jugendstil,
• Modern,

• Birnbaumholz,
• schwarz gebeizt; Lindenholz,
• geschnitzt,
• vergoldet,

• height: 148.5 cm
• width: 156 cm
• depth: 61.5 cm

• H 2814

• purchase, 1985

• Furniture and Woodwork Collection

• cabinet, Dagobert Peche Revisited
• design, Ladies’ Salon

Around 1910, a new generation of designers and architects took the stage. Most of them had been trained at the Technische Hochschule [College of Technology] in Vienna, and among their number were Oskar Strnad, Josef Frank and Oskar Wlach, as well as Dagobert Peche. This group began questioning the unified conception of art and utilitarian objects that had been adopted only recently, around the turn of the century. Peche, for his part, developed his artistic expressivity out of the “emancipation from utility”—and the consequence was furniture in a decorative “Viennese Style”. A good example of this is his four-door salon cabinet made of black-stained pear wood and decorated with gold-plated bouquets carved from basswood. Nearly as tall as it is wide, this piece of furniture stands on eight delicate, curving legs and can be opened from two sides. (Hackenschmidt, Sebastian)

• MAK-Nachdenkereien: Tabubruch Eines Möbels (MAK Nachdenkereien)

ausgestellt

• cabinet, Salon Cabinet for a Reception Salon, Dagobert Peche, MAK Inv.nr. H 2814

• https://mak-wp.711.at/en/collect/salon-cabinet-for-a-reception-salon_185999

• 06.12.2024