JOSEF HOFFMANN
| About the artist | Brtnice 1870 – 1956 Vienna |
| Designed by | Josef Hoffmann, Vienna, before 1906 |
| Executed by | J. & J. Kohn, from 1906 on, model no. 322 |
| Dimensions | H 99 cm, SH 46 cm, W 44 cm, D 42 cm |
| Material | Bent beech and plywood, surface cleaned and slightly repolished, re-upholstered , very good original condition |
| Provenance | private property, Austria |
| Literature | J. & J. Kohn sales catalogue, 1906, p. 65; The Art Revival in Austria, The Studio, special number 1906, ill. C 10; G. Renzi, Il mobile moderno, Gebrüder Thonet Vienna, Jacob & Josef Kohn, Milan, 2008, p. 64 ff |
CHAIR Model “Sanatorium Purkersdorf”.
In 1904, Viktor Zuckerkandl commissioned Josef Hoffmann and the Wiener Werkstätte with the planning and construction of a sanatorium in Purkersdorf near Vienna. The chair, Hoffmann designed for the dining room, was one of his pioneering works. It is depicted in a special number of The Studio magazine in an article entitled “The Art Revival in Austria”. Hoffmann also created the armchair and bench intended to be produced in series by J. & J. Kohn. As early as in April 1906, the armchair was already shown in the visitor’s hall of the Milan exhibition. However, none of these pieces met with the hoped for response from the public and were thus rarely produced. The design’s modernity as well as their rarity have turned these pieces into some of the most sought after collector’s items of Josef Hoffmann’s oeuvre.
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