Rudolf Lorenz, Austrian Werkbund cabinet, pre-final prototype, circa 1928. LORENZ MÖBEL
This cabinet originates from the milieu of Kunst und Wohnung (Lorenz Möbel), a Vienna-based firm founded in 1919 that played a central role in the Austrian Werkbund’s reform of domestic interiors. The piece is constructed from solid larch wood and presents a fully resolved architectural form and internal layout; however, it clearly remained unfinished at the level of surface refinement. The wood surfaces were never fully sanded or treated, and the interior retains a raw, technical character, indicating that final finishing stages were never carried out.
These characteristics strongly suggest that the cabinet represents a pre-final prototype—a direct predecessor to a more refined, published version known from archival photographs dated 1928, executed in oak with more elaborate front detailing and a finished interior. The present example preserves the moment in which structural and proportional decisions had already been finalized, while aesthetic refinements were either postponed or interrupted.
Operating in close artistic proximity to figures such as Hugo Gorge and within the broader intellectual context later associated with Josef Frank, this cabinet stands as a rare material document of an interrupted Werkbund design process rather than a completed presentation piece.
168cm x 100cm x 48cm
€ 4.500
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