Richard Riemerschmid Corner furniture Mother of Pearl
Richard Riemerschmid, Corner furniture/ corner table. Wood, various veneers, mother-of-pearl. 100.5 x 80 x 80 cm. Square table with slightly curly sides. Diagonalfolding table top with inlaid décor of a large stylized sheet/drop. Wall end strip with friezes made of four-sided mother-of-pearl elements. Leg under the front corner with corresponding ornamental mother-of-pearl inlays. Riemerschmid uses mother-of-pearl inlays as a creative tool several times in his designs, for the first time in 1902/03 for the salon in the house of Heyl, Worms, then in the reception room Haus Thieme, Munich, in the reception room for the exhibition of the Dresden workshops and also in 1906 in the music room Haus Sultan, Berlin. The profile of the horizontal wall end is also shown in a chest of drawers from the House of Thieme, which is now in the Munich City Museum., Literature: Richard Riemerschmid. W. Nerdinger (Hg.), Katalog Münchner Stadtmuseum 1982, S. 164, Nr. 94; S. 169, Nr. 98; S. 177, Nr.106 und S. 216, Nr. 151. Hans Ottomeyer. Jugendstilmöbel. Katalog der Möbelsammlung des Münchner Stadtmuseums. München 1988, S. 94.
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Richard Riemerschmid, Corner furniture/ corner table. Wood, various veneers, mother-of-pearl. 100.5 x 80 x 80 cm. Square table with slightly curly sides. Diagonalfolding table top with inlaid décor of a large stylized sheet/drop. Wall end strip with friezes made of four-sided mother-of-pearl elements. Leg under the front corner with corresponding ornamental mother-of-pearl inlays. Riemerschmid uses mother-of-pearl inlays as a creative tool several times in his designs, for the first time in 1902/03 for the salon in the house of Heyl, Worms, then in the reception room Haus Thieme, Munich, in the reception room for the exhibition of the Dresden workshops and also in 1906 in the music room Haus Sultan, Berlin. The profile of the horizontal wall end is also shown in a chest of drawers from the House of Thieme, which is now in the Munich City Museum., Literature: Richard Riemerschmid. W. Nerdinger (Hg.), Katalog Münchner Stadtmuseum 1982, S. 164, Nr. 94; S. 169, Nr. 98; S. 177, Nr.106 und S. 216, Nr. 151. Hans Ottomeyer. Jugendstilmöbel. Katalog der Möbelsammlung des Münchner Stadtmuseums. München 1988, S. 94.
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