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He became a leading member of the Munich Vereinigte Werkstätten (United Workshops), founded in 1898. \r\n\r\nThis dressing table was made by the workshops in the following year as part of a scheme of furnishings made for a newly married couple. The dressing table incorporates a full-length mirror of the kind that was often supplied as a separate piece of furniture in a bedroom suite. This interest in functionalism in design is an aspect of Riemerschmid's work that accounts for his later importance in the development of Modernism. The choice of light-coloured ash, with some elements showing the lively grain of burr ash, gives a decorative surface to a piece that is otherwise deliberately simple in its form, relying on proportion and elegant line for its success as a design.","physicalDescription":"A low dressing table of ash and burr ash, with brass fittings, set with a tall looking glass.  The dressing table is raised on short legs, the base fitted with three asymmetrically placed drawers with brass handles and locks. The sides rise above the low top of these drawers and are fitted with narrow, slightly curved shelves, with similar shelves forming a top surface to the side panels.  Above these, the side panels curve back and up to form supports for the tall back, which is fitted with a mirror of a size normally associated with a cheval glass.  The corner between the rising side panels and the back are each fitted with two further small angle shelves and above these are candle brackets.","artistMakerPerson":[{"name":{"text":"Riemerschmid, Richard","id":"A6647"},"association":{"text":"designer","id":"AAT25190"},"note":""}],"artistMakerOrganisations":[{"name":{"text":"Vereinigte Werkstätten für Kunst und Handwerk GMBH","id":"A6716"},"association":{"text":"maker","id":"AAT251917"},"note":""}],"artistMakerPeople":[],"materials":[{"text":"Ash","id":"AAT164025"},{"text":"Burr ash","id":"x37610"},{"text":"Brass","id":"AAT10946"},{"text":"Mirror glass","id":"x32916"}],"techniques":[{"text":"Joinery","id":"x36614"},{"text":"Veneering","id":"AAT53878"}],"materialsAndTechniques":"Crown ash, with brass fittings and glass mirror","categories":[{"text":"Furniture","id":"THES48948"}],"styles":[{"text":"Art Nouveau","id":"AAT21430"}],"collectionCode":{"text":"FWK","id":"THES48597"},"images":["2006AF5062"],"imageResolution":"low","galleryLocations":[{"current":{"text":"001","id":"THES341836"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""},{"current":{"text":"001","id":"THES341836"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""},{"current":{"text":"001","id":"THES341836"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""},{"current":{"text":"001","id":"THES341836"},"free":"","case":"","shelf":"","box":""}],"partTypes":[[{"text":"dressing table","id":"AAT39668"}],[{"text":"drawer (furniture component)","id":"AAT40558"}],[{"text":"drawer (furniture component)","id":"AAT40558"}],[{"text":"drawer (furniture component)","id":"AAT40558"}]],"contentWarnings":[{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""},{"apprise":"","note":""}],"placesOfOrigin":[{"place":{"text":"Munich","id":"x29009"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"productionDates":[{"date":{"text":"1899","earliest":"1899-01-01","latest":"1899-12-31"},"association":{"text":"made","id":"x28654"},"note":""}],"associatedObjects":[],"creditLine":"","dimensions":[{"dimension":"Height","value":"192","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Width","value":"79","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""},{"dimension":"Depth","value":"40","unit":"cm","qualifier":"","date":{"text":"","earliest":null,"latest":null},"part":"","note":""}],"dimensionsNote":"Dimensions taken from departmental catalogue. 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