Werkstätte Carl Auböck More Furniture and Collectibles
Austrian
In Vienna’s Neubau district, a beautiful Biedermeier townhouse has been home to the Werkstätte Carl Auböck for more than 100 years. Inside the workshop, where production continues to this day, countless objects line the shelves, walls, tabletops and desktops.
The Viennese artist and designer Carl Auböck II was one of the quirkiest and most delightful and collectible of modern designers. A rather odd duck in the world of decorative arts, he was a peculiar talent whose specialties included smaller desk accessories and tabletop pieces such as corkscrews, paperweights, letter openers, bookends and bottle stoppers. He rendered these pieces in a combination of metal — most often brass — and such elemental materials as leather, knobby wood and animal horn, creating forms that could be almost Surrealist, from hands and feet to keys, birds and amoebae.
As a boy, Auböck was precocious and artistic. He studied drawing and at the same time trained in the workshop of his father, Karl Heinrich Auböck, a popular maker of traditional bronze figurines and collectibles. In 1919, Carl II went to Germany to study at the Bauhaus, where he was a pupil of the progressive artist and theorist Johannes Itten. While the Bauhaus is most associated with the rigidly ordered, functionalist architecture of its directors Walter Gropius and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, the school was in reality a liberal, spirited place — a crucible for imaginative, playful and avant-garde art and design. It was this spirit that imbued Carl II’s work from the time he left in 1921.
In 1922 or ’23, Carl Auböck II returned to Vienna to help care for his ailing father, and he took over the business. He created the Werkstätte Carl Auböck and a legacy that earned his objects cult status among collectors. The business was passed on to his descendants, who run the atelier that is still in operation today. Today, objects designed by Carl II make up 90 percent of Werkstätte Carl Auböck’s production, joined by the creations of architect and designer Carl IV, his grandson.
Vintage Auböck designs have a special character, a patina that only emphasizes how much the pieces have been loved and used. Carl Aubock II’s small furniture items — leather- or caned-sling magazine racks; free-edge wooden side tables with tubular bronze legs; wicker serving trolleys with turned beechwood wheels — are elegant and purposeful. His bijoux desktop objects, library tools, ashtrays and barware pieces evince a kind of mirthful practicality. They seem to ask: “If you need a corkscrew, or a paperweight, or a candlestick, why not make it fun as well as functional?” And indeed, why not?
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Creator: Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Pair of Carl Auböck Model #4575 Patinated Brass Bookends
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Glendale, CA
Pair of Carl Aubo¨ck Model #4575 Patinated Brass Bookends. Designed in the 1950s, this incredibly refined and sculptural pair of bookends are executed in patinated brass.
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21st Century and Contemporary Austrian Mid-Century Modern Werkstätte Carl Auböck More Furniture and Collectibles
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Mid Century Modern Vintage Set of Eight Brass Hooks Carl Auböck 1950s Austria
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Vienna, AT
Mid Century Modern vintage set of eight hooks from solid and partly blackened brass by Carl Auböck 1950s Vienna.
Wonderful set of eight pieces hooks number 5 like, which consists of...
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Rare Model 3608 Brass & Leather Magazine Stand by Carl Aubock, Austria
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Utrecht, NL
Solid brass and dark brown saddle leather magazine holder by Carl Aubock, Vienna from early 1960.
Rare model 3608 magazine stand in solid brass & leather hand crafted at the renown ...
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Brass
Carl Auböck Model #5735 Brass Foot Figurine Keyring
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Glendale, CA
Carl Auböck model #5735 brass foot figurine keyring. Designed in the 1950s, this incredibly refined and sculptural object is hand fabricated in polished brass.
Price is per item. O...
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21st Century and Contemporary Austrian Mid-Century Modern Werkstätte Carl Auböck More Furniture and Collectibles
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Pair of Carl Auböck Model #4843 Patinated Brass Bookends
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Glendale, CA
Pair of Carl Auböck Model #4842 patinated brass bookends. Designed in the 1950s, this incredibly refined and sculptural pair of bookends are executed in patinated brass.
Price is f...
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Carl Auböck Mid Century Vintage Black Brass Umbrella Stand Cane Holder 1950s
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Vienna, AT
Mid-Century Modern vintage authentic umbrella stand or cane holder by Carl Auböck for workshop Auböck, 1950s Austria.
The authentic umbrella stand is in original condition with belo...
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Brass, Iron
Carl Auböck Bookends # 3652
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Berlin, DE
Classic pair of Carl Auböck bookends in polished brass.
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Carl Auböck Model #5663 'Shell' Brass Figurine Keyring
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Glendale, CA
Carl Aubo¨ck model #5663 'Shell' brass figurine keyring. Designed in the 1950s, this incredibly refined and sculptural object is hand fabricated in polished brass.
Price is per item...
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Carl Auböck Midcentury Wall Coat Rack #4547 & Seven Brass Hooks, 1960s, Austria
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck, Carl Auböck
Located in Biebergemund, Hessen
Austrian Mid-Century Modern coatrack #4547 made of solid waxed beech wood with seven patinated/polished solid brass hooks designed by Carl Auböck and handmade by Werkstätten Auböck.
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Ashtray, Brass and Wood, Carl Auböck Vienna, Austria
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Vienna, AT
An ashtray by Carl Auböck made of brass.
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Pipe Stand, Brass and Leather, Carl Auböck Vienna, Austria
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Vienna, AT
Pipe stand made by Carl Auböck coated with leather.
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Brass
Carl Auböck Model #7151 'Anchor' Brass Figurine Keyring
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Glendale, CA
Carl Auböck Model #7151 brass figurine keyring. Designed in the 1950s, this incredibly refined and sculptural object is hand fabricated in polished brass.
Price is per item. Other Aubock keyrings...
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Brass
Lighter in Cubic Shape, Horn and Brass, Carl Auböck Vienna, Austria
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Vienna, AT
Cubic lighter by Carl Auböck made of horn.
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Brass
Carl Aubock Mid-Century Modern Beech Coat Rack Six Brass Hooks Vienna, 1950s
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Vienna, AT
Mid-Century Modern vintage original Carl Auböck coat rack or wardrobe from beech with six brass hooks Vienna 1950s
While the wall mounted wardrobe...
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Horn Lighter, Carl Auböck Vienna, Austria
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Vienna, AT
Lighter for the table and for decoration by Carl Auböck.
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Brass
Very Rare Magazine Rack by Carl Auböck
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Munich, DE
Manufactured by Werkstätten Auböck. brass and leather.
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1940s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Werkstätte Carl Auböck More Furniture and Collectibles
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Brass
Set of Five Carl Auböck Brass Figurine Keyrings
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Glendale, CA
Set of four Carl Auböck brass figurine keyrings. Includes model #4500 'Pig', model #5607 'Donkey', model #5663 'Shell', model #5734 'Hand and model #7151 'Anchor'. Designed in the 1...
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21st Century and Contemporary Austrian Mid-Century Modern Werkstätte Carl Auböck More Furniture and Collectibles
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Umbrella Stand Design Carl Auböck Metal Wickerwork Werkstätte Vienna, 1950s
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Vienna, AT
Umbrella Stand design Carl Auböck Werkstätte Vienna 1950s made of blacked metal combined with wickerwork. A quite discreet but useful piece which fits to every room without being too...
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Carl Auböck Brass & Cognac Leather Magazine Rack, Signed, # 4019, 1950, Austria
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Biebergemund, Hessen
Timeless Mid-Century Modern newspaper/magazine stand no. 4019 designed by Carl Auböck II from early 1950s, signed and manufactured by Auböck Werkstätte in Vienna. It's made of solid ...
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Carl Aubock Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brass Leather Coat Hook, 1960, Austria
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Vienna, AT
Mid-Century Modern vintage coat hook model# 4650 designed by Carl Auböck and manufactured
by Carl Auböck workshop 1960 Vienna.
The gorgeous stitch...
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Bookends by Carl Auböck III
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in San Diego, CA
Rare pair of bookends by Carl Auböck III.
Nickel plated steel. 1970s.
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Carl Auböck Mid-Century Brass and Cast Iron Umbrella Stand, Austria, 1950s
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Vienna, AT
A straight and beautiful Austrian modernist umbrella stand, made of brass and cast iron. Designed and executed by Carl Auböck. A sophisticated piece, one of the most beautiful umbrella...
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20th Century Austrian Mid-Century Modern Werkstätte Carl Auböck More Furniture and Collectibles
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Brass, Iron
Carl Auböck Midcentury Wall Coat Rack with Six Brass Hooks, 1950s, Austria
By Carl Auböck, Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Biebergemund, Hessen
Austrian Mid-Century Modern coatrack made of solid beechwood with six polished solid brass hooks designed by Carl Auböck and handmade by Werkstätten A...
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Brass
Carl Auböck Model #3808 Black Leather and Brass Magazine Rack
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Glendale, CA
Carl Auböck model #3642 black leather and brass table designed in the 1950s, this incredibly refined and sculptural magazine rack is executed in beautifully grained black cowhide lea...
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Carl Aubock Brass Coat Rack
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Austria, 1950s, solid cast bronze. Three sculptural biomorphic hooks mounted to a teak bracket. Bracket measures 32.75" x 2.75". Hooks are 7" x 4". Nice vintage example.
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Carl Auböck Magazine Rack No. 4102, Patinated Brass Leather, 1950
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Hausmannstätten, AT
A gorgeous and large magazine or newspaper tray made of patined brass and black leather designed by Carl Auböck, manufactured by Carl Auböck workshop, Vienna, Austria, in midcentury ...
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1950s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Werkstätte Carl Auböck More Furniture and Collectibles
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Two Bookends by Carl Auböck Brass Design Vienna, Austria
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Vienna, AT
A pair of large solid brass bookends created and manufactured by the Austrian architect and designer Carl Auböck. These outstanding objects made of solid polished and decorated brass...
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1980s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Werkstätte Carl Auböck More Furniture and Collectibles
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Pair of Carl Auböck Model #4637 Brass Bookends
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Glendale, CA
Pair of Carl Auböck model #4637 brass bookends. Designed in the 1950s, this incredibly refined and sculptural pair of bookends are executed in patinated and polished brass.
Price i...
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Brass
Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brass Leather Coat Hook Carl Auböck 1960 Vienna
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Vienna, AT
Mid-Century Modern vintage leather coat hook designed and executed by Carl Auböck workshop 1960 Vienna, which shows a beautiful hand stitched cogn...
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Brass
Carl Auböck Vintage Beech Brass Coat Rack or Coat Stand, Austria, 1950s
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Vienna, AT
An original Carl Auböck vintage beech brass coat rack or wall mounted wardrobe, which was designed in Austria 1950s.
The coat rack was made of shel...
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Grouping of Six Carl Auböck Brass Bookends
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Glendale, CA
Grouping of six Carl Auböck brass bookends. Includes one pair each of models #4635, #4636 and #4637. Designed in the 1950s, these incredibly...
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Brass
Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brass Copper Carl Auböck Standing Ashtray Vienna 1950
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Vienna, AT
Mid-Century Modern vintage brass and copper standing ashtray, which was designed by Carl Auböck and manufactured by Workshop Carl Auböck, Vien...
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Brass, Copper
Carl Auböck Model #4630 Large Brass Bookends
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Glendale, CA
Carl Aubo¨ck model #4630 large brass bookends. Designed in the 1950s, this incredibly refined and sculptural pair of bookends are executed in polished brass.
Price is for the pair....
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Two Midcentury Coat Rack in Brass and Block Patina, from Carl Auböck
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Vienna, Austria
Two midcentury coat hooks in brass and black. Designed in the 1950s by Carl Auböck and manufactured in Austria, they have acquired a lovely patin...
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Pair of Carl Auböck Bookends #4100 in a Patina and Polish Brass Mix
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Berlin, DE
Classic pair of Carl Auböck bookends in a patina and polish brass mix.
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Brass
Mid-Century Modern Wall Beech Vintage Wardrobe with Brass Hooks by Carl Auböck
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Vienna, AT
This presented wall-mounted wardrobe by Carl Auböck, Vienna circa 1950, was made of beechwood slats, which were lacquered black and colorless.
Also the wardrobe features five pieces...
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Carl Auböck Mid-Century Brass Umbrella Stand, Austria, 1950s
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Vienna, AT
A straight and beautiful Austrian umbrella stand, made of brass and cast iron. Designed and executed by Carl Auböck. A sophisticated piece, one of the most beautiful umbrella...
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Brass, Iron
Rare Microscope "Neopan" by Carl Aubock 1963, Reichert Vienna
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Vienna, AT
A very rare award-winning microscope, model Neopan, designed in 1963 by the Viennese architect and designer Carl Aubock. Executed by Reichert Austria. In good condition, fully workin...
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Carl Auböck The Most Elegant Brush
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in London, GB
Large brush made in solid Walnut , natural bristles and original cognac leather strap.
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Leather, Walnut
Carl Auböck Brush Pen Holder
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in London, GB
A wonderful little pen holder by Carl Auböck. Handmade in Vienna in the 1950s. A beautiful delicate sculptural piece.
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Walnut
10x Vintage Carl Auböck II Nickel-Plated Brass Wall Hooks, Austria, 1950s
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Vienna, AT
Up to 10 Midcentury brass wall hooks, model 4330, designed and executed in the 1950s by Carl Aubock II in Vienna, Austria. Sold and priced per piece. This is the more unusual nickel-...
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Brass, Nickel
Carl Auböck Midcentury Raffia Umbrella Stand, Wastepaper Basket, 1950s, Austria
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Biebergemund, Hessen
Very rare simple and elegant midcentury umbrella stand or wastepaper basket designed by Carl Auböck II and manufactured by Werkstätten Auböck in the 1950s, Austria. It's made of raff...
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Carl Auböck Magazine Rack in Leather and Brass, Austria 1960s
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Berlin, DE
Carl Auböck Magazine Rack, Austria 1960s.
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Set of 6 Original 50s Wardrobe Hooks Solid Brass Created by Carl Auböck
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Vienna, AT
Set of 6 Original 50s Wardrobe hooks solid brass created by Carl Auböck.
Bought directly from an Viennese apartment, furnished in the year 1958.
Original brass screws are included...
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1950s Austrian Art Deco Vintage Werkstätte Carl Auböck More Furniture and Collectibles
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Large Teak Bowl with Brass and Leather Handle by Carl Auböck, Austria, 1950s
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Kirchlengern, DE
Article:
Teak bowl, shell element
Design:
Carl Auböck, 1950s
Producer:
Auböck Workshop Vienna, Austria
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Austria
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1950s
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Werkstätte Carl Auböck more furniture and collectibles are available for sale on 1stDibs. These distinctive items are frequently made of metal and are designed with extraordinary care. There are many options to choose from in our collection of Werkstätte Carl Auböck more furniture and collectibles, although black editions of this piece are particularly popular. We have 158 vintage editions of these items in-stock, while there is 102 modern edition to choose from as well. Many of the original more furniture and collectibles by Werkstätte Carl Auböck were created in the mid-century modern style in europe during the 20th century. If you’re looking for additional options, many customers also consider more furniture and collectibles by Franz Hagenauer, Walter Bosse, and Werkstätte Hagenauer Wien. Prices for Werkstätte Carl Auböck more furniture and collectibles can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at $145 and can go as high as $12,712, while a piece like these, on average, fetch $1,001.
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