in collaboration with Max Schmidt / work master Berka, manufactured by Kunsttischlerei Friedrich Otto Schmidt, Vienna, after 1900; the wooden construction supported on eight legs, with tiles, brass fittings and sabots, height approx. 64.5 cm, diameter approx. 87 cm. (MHA)

Adolf Loos used this table model in several variants (six- and eight-legged models, differently dimensioned tops, with or without brass applications and inserts in the table top). An example of the present type is in the collections of the Vienna Museum of Applied Arts/MAK (permanent exhibition ‘Design/Decorative Arts 1890–1938’).

Lit.:
cf. Eva B. Ottilinger, Adolf Loos. Wohnkonzepte und Möbelentwürfe, Salzburg/Vienna, 1994, p. 47, fig. 39, pp. 154/55, fig. 39: Elephant’s Trunk Table, six-legged version, after 1900, oak with tiles, brass bands and sabots, manufactured by F. O. Schmidt, former Hofmobiliendepot, Vienna; Burkhardt Rukschcio, Roland Schachel, Adolf Loos. Leben und Werk, Salzburg/Vienna 1982, pp. 423/24, cat. no. 12, apartment of Gustav and Marie Turnowsky, 1040 Vienna, No. 19 Wohllebengasse, c. 1900, fig. 418, sitting area in the study, Wohllebengasse, photograph from 1900; Vera Behal, Zwei bekannte Loos-Möbel: der ‘Ägyptische Hocker’ und der ‘Elefantenrüsseltisch’, in: Alte und Moderne Kunst, XXVII, no. 182, 1982, pp. 56/57