Mirror cabinet from a boudoir

Hans Christiansen moved to Paris in 1895/96 to develop as a universal artist. After the Grand Duke Ernst Ludwig von Hessen und bei Rhein personally tried to win him over to the Darmstadt artists' colony on the Mathildenhöhe in Darmstadt, he left the city with a heavy heart in 1898. As one of seven artists, he participated at the first exhibition of the artists' colony "Dokument Deutscher Kunst" in 1901 and built the house "Villa in Rosen", which was destroyed in World War II.
In Christiansen's furniture designs, no straight line of development can be discerned. Rather, he seemed to be in the field of tension of the emerging styles of his time. The mirror cabinet is characteristic of his creative period between 1903 and 1910, with its imaginative inlays, decorative double columns with small metal shoes and metal capitals.