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Desk for Archduke Charles, 1822-25
Private Cabinet
Manufactured around 1822-25 by the Danhauser furniture factory for Archduke Charles, this piece represents a combination of desk models nos. 7 and 35 from the company’s production.
Joseph Danhauser
Desk for Archduke Charles, 1822-25
It is a superb example of the Danhauser furniture factory’s innovative production process based on the standardization
of individual construction elements to be assembled to a great variety of different models. Thus, the company was able to
offer an enormous product range (such as 153 chairs, 79 settees, 51 daybeds, 179 chandeliers, etc.).
A photograph dating from around 1900 documents that the desk formed part of the furnishings of the so-called Smokers’
Lounge installed under Archduke Frederick in 1896.