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Title
- Secretary Desk, Presented at theFirst International Exhibition ofModern Decorative Art in Turin, 1902 (descriptive title)
Collection
Production
- design: Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Glasgow, 1901
- design: Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh, Glasgow, 1901
- execution: Margaret MacDonald Mackintosh, Glasgow, 1901
Material | Technique
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Ahornholz,
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massiv und furniert,
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gebeizt und politiert; Pastiglia auf Neusilber
Measurements
- height: 148 cm
- width: 124 cm
- depth: 30 cm
Inventory number
- H 1725
Acquisition
- donation , 1938
Department
- Furniture and Woodwork Collection
Inscriptions
- inscription: Secure leve
- Inschrift: W
- Inschrift: Wal(?)ters Patent Impl(?)d Bal(?)es 3A
Description
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Vienna’s Artistic Spring took important impulses from the artistic ideas of Scottish architect and craftsman Charles Rennie Mackintosh. This secretary desk with a fall-front writing surface was shown in 1902 as part of the Rose Boudoir at the First International Exhibition of Modern Decorative Art in Turin and purchased by Fritz Waerndorfer for his Viennese home. The
decorative panels on the doors’ inner and outer surfaces as well as on the rear interior wall were done by Mackintosh’s wife, the artist Margaret Macdonald Mackintosh (1865–1933). They show “weeping roses” and female figures with rose
blossoms and rose leaves; in keeping with the tears depicted on the panels, the handle-rings on the doors are likewise tear-shaped.
(Hackenschmidt, Sebastian)
See More:
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bureau bookcase, Secretary Desk, Presented at the First International Exhibition of Modern Decorative Art in Turin, 1902, Charles Rennie Mackintosh, MAK Inv.nr. H 1725
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https://sammlung.mak.at/en/collect/secretary-desk-presented-at-thefirst-international-exhibition-ofmodern-decorative-art-in-turin-1902_185015
Last update
- 25.10.2025
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