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 c. 64.5 cm, diameter c. 87 cm. (MHA)

Adolf Loos used this table model in different variations (6 and 8-legged models, size of the table top, with and without brass appliqués as well as table-top inlays.) An example of this model series is preserved in the collection of the Museum of Applied Arts, Vienna (in the permanent exhibition “Design/Arts and Crafts 1890 – 1938”).

Cf. Lit.:
Eva B. Ottilinger, Adolf Loos. Wohnkonzepte und Möbelentwürfe, Salzburg/Vienna, 1994, p. 47, ill. 39, p. 154f. ill. 39: elephant trunk table, six-legged version, after 1900, oakwood with tiles, brass bands and sabots, execution: F. O. Schmidt, former Imperial Furniture Collection, Vienna. Burkhardt Rukschcio/Roland Schachel, Adolf Loos. Leben und Werk, Salzburg/Vienna 1982. p. 423f., cat. no. 12, Gustav and Marie Turnowsky apartment, Vienna IV, Wohllebengasse 19, c. 1900, ill. 418, seating corner in the study, Wohllebengasse, photograph c. 1900. Vera Behal, Zwei bekannte Loos-Möbel: der “Ägyptische Hocker” und der “Elefantenrüsseltisch”,
in: Alte und Moderne Kunst XXVII/182 (1982), p. 56f.