Tea-tables from the Danhauser Furniture Workshop documents a group of tea-table models produced by the Danhauser’sche Möbelfabrik in Vienna.

Published by the Museum für angewandte Kunst in 1989, the volume focuses on an important chapter of Viennese furniture history and the refined domestic culture of the nineteenth century.

The Danhauser Furniture Workshop was among the leading Viennese furniture manufacturers of its time. Its production combined high craftsmanship with the formal language of Biedermeier and early historicism, responding to the changing habits of bourgeois interiors. Tea tables occupied a particular place within this culture: they were functional pieces of furniture, but also objects of representation, sociability, and taste.

The publication presents these models as evidence of a highly developed design and manufacturing practice. Their proportions, construction, surfaces, and decorative details reveal the close relationship between furniture design, material refinement, and the social rituals of the interior.

As a museum publication, Tea-tables from the Danhauser Furniture Workshop is both a focused historical study and a documentation of applied arts. It offers insight into Viennese furniture production, the culture of the domestic interior, and the role of the Danhauser workshop in shaping nineteenth-century design.