Lot 34

Joseph Ulrich Danhauser (1780 - 1829) (workshop) EMPIRE PERIOD SOFA

Joseph Ulrich Danhauser was one of the first furniture makers to successfully present complete furniture collections to the general public. Furniture from his workshop could be ordered directly from a catalog, much like today. This sofa, like Danhauser’s other designs, combines functionality, practicality, and relatively simple aesthetics, yet retains Empire-style grandeur in the form of carved, polychromed, and gilded stylized birds and legs shaped like a lion’s head and paw. Fully restored.