This beautiful and useful American art deco occasional table was designed by Wolfgang Hoffmann (1900 – 1969), son of famous Vienna architect and co-founder of the Wiener Werkstatte, Josef Hoffmann. Produced for the Howell Company of St. Charles, Illinois, the elegant table combines a rebus of chromed steel and high gloss black lacquer. It also features an innovative leather wrapped handle to facilitate moving it about the room. This table was one of two of Hoffmann’s designs that were featured in the Museum Show, “At Home in the Thirties” and was later sent on loan to a museum show in Vienna, Austria on expatriate Austrian designers who flourished in America in the 1930’s. The table is 22” wide x 13 ½” deep and is 20” high to the top surface and 25” to the top of the handle.