Josef Hoffmann
NESTING TABLES WITH SQUARE LATTICEWORK
Josef Hoffmann
NESTING TABLES WITH SQUARE LATTICEWORK
Bel Etage, Wolfgang Bauer, Vienna
Date Around 1906
Period 20th century
Origin Austria
Medium Bent beech and plywood
Dimension 75 x 55 x 42.5 cm (29¹/₂ x 21⁵/₈ x 16³/₄ inches)
Designed by: Josef Hoffmann, Vienna, around 1906
Executed by: J. & J. Kohn, model no. 988
Bent beech and plywood, dyed to rosewood, professionally repolished, very good condition
Josef Hoffmann designed these nesting tables around 1906. The best known variant has rods on the sides. The much rarer variant boasts plywood latticework composed of three rows of squares on the sides of the largest table, thus establishing a direct design link to the “sitting machine”.
Date: Around 1906
Period: 20th century
Origin: Austria
Medium: Bent beech and plywood
Dimension: 75 x 55 x 42.5 cm (29¹/₂ x 21⁵/₈ x 16³/₄ inches)
Literature: J. & J. Kohn sales cat., 1916, p. 79; Das
Interieur, vol. IX, 1908, p. 28; G. Renzi, Il mobile
moderno, Gebrüder Thonet Vienna, Jacob & Josef Kohn, Milan, 2008, pp. 180 f
Bel Etage, Wolfgang Bauer, Vienna
Viennese Jugendstil, Secessionist Movement
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