Wilhelm Schmidt Made by Prag-Rudniker. A Vienna Secession Oak Piano Stool
£3,000 £2,500
Wilhelm Schmidt, made by Prag-Rudniker, Vienna
A Vienna Secessionist Arts and Crafts oak piano stool. Features tulip-style cut-outs to the top sides and curved seat forms, with three vertical slats to each side uniting the lower side stretchers to twin lower stretchers. This example has a period green upholstered flat seat.
Illustrated in:
Das Interieur I II, Wiener Kunst im Hause Exhibition, Wien, 1902, p. 169
Prag-Rudniker Korbwaren-Fabrikation Catalogue, 1902/1903, No. 508
Korbmöbel, Eva B. Ottillinger (Salzburg, Residenz Verlag, 1990), p. 106, illus. No. 99
Moderne Vergangenheit Wien 1800–1900 (Vienna, Künstlerhaus, 1981), p. 271
We also have another piano stool designed by Wilhelm Schmidt and made by Prag-Rudniker:
https://www.puritanvalues.com/product/wilhelm-schmidt-and-made-by-prag-rudniker-in-vienna-a-vienna-secessionist-arts-and-crafts-oak-piano-stool
Width: 18 in (45.72 cm)
Depth: 17.5 in (44.45 cm)
1900-1909