Description & Technical information
Designed by: Josef Hoffmann attr.
Executed by: J. & J. Kohn (brand mark)
Surface professionally repolished, seat back panels with inlays in different woods and brass, upholstery and leather covering renewed
H 100 cm, SH 46 cm, W 42 cm, D 44 cm
These chairs are a variation of the pioneering "Purkersdorf" chair. The basic construction (seat, design of the front legs as well as the single-piece, bent wood back legs) correspond to the Purkersdorf chair. The oval panel of the seat back is reminiscent of a bench designed by Koloman Moser (see cat. bel etage, Maastricht 2013, no. 20). Hoffmann also used a similar chair to furnish the children's room in the Palais Stoclet though that had a round seat.
Date: around 1907
Period: 20th century
Origin: Austria, Vienna
Medium: Bent beech, Plywood, Dyed to rosewood
Dimensions: 100 x 42 x 44 cm (39³/₈ x 16¹/₂ x 17³/₈ inches)
Provenance: Private collection, England
Literature: Ref.: V. J. Behal, p. 139, Purkersdorfer Stuhl; E. F. Sekler, Josef Hoffmann, Das architektonische Werk, p. 97 (Stoclet)
Categories: Furniture
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